RC 261016947Zweli Mbhele

Friday, 16 October 2026

Friday's bulletins led with a Madlanga Commission arrest at OR Tambo and a Tshwane water-safety row, before the show turned to listeners' school-bunking stories.

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  1. 14:02

    A Northwest businessman was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport last night while trying to leave the country, and charged with contravening the Madlanga Commission's Act for failing to appear.

  2. 13:01

    A court has ordered that the bail application proceed after the state wanted the matter postponed for further investigation. The commission referred him after repeated no-shows.

  3. 13:03

    The DA will take legal action against Tshwane over alleged failure to warn residents about unsafe water, after up to 160 diarrhoea cases; a whistleblower claims a plant ran without chlorine for three weeks.

  4. 13:02

    A self-proclaimed pastor and his two wives appeared in Atteridgeville court, accused of conspiring to murder a woman for her funeral policies after she was allegedly raped and her baby killed.