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Thursday, 8 October 2026
The breakfast show combined a serious Gauteng crime and corruption bulletin with a history-focused brain teaser about Solomon Linda’s uncredited hit, “Mbube”.
- 05:31
Police are searching for a 24-year-old pastor accused of raping a woman and killing her four-month-old baby during a ritual near the Hennops River.
- 05:31
A committee probing police corruption recommended obtaining banking and accommodation records concerning allegations that former minister Bheki Cele received R500,000 from alleged criminal kingpin Vusi “Katiso” Matlala.
- 05:32
The MK Party said Jacob Zuma was in good health after a routine check-up, despite reports of hospital admission, and that his local-election campaign would continue.
- 05:42
The brain teaser identified Solomon Linda, songwriter with the Evening Birds, as the creator of “Mbube”, later adapted by The Tokens as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.