RC 261113947Anele Mdoda
Friday, 13 November 2026
Coalition talks after the ANC's worst election result dominated the morning, while a global Microsoft Outlook outage became the show's running joke.
- 06:33
The ANC has lost its majority in all of the country's big metro municipalities and dropped to about 30% of the national vote, its worst national result since 1994.
- 08:00
Coalition talks will keep parliamentarians away from Cape Town for at least another month, with the ANC asking its MPs to work remotely until majority government deals are finalised.
- 07:03
Microsoft Outlook suffered a global outage that knocked out Teams and Copilot in at least 74 countries and territories, with Microsoft saying it is working aggressively to reduce the impact.
- 06:02
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says Ramaphosa's US trip is about artificial intelligence, not trade talks over AGOA, which ends for South Africa on 1 January.