RC 261028947Nick Explicit
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
A news-heavy Wednesday morning on Daybreak, led by a Tshwane water contamination crisis that has made more than 800 people ill, alongside Israel's inconclusive election and a Faraday brain teaser.
- 05:32
A deputy water minister is calling for a full investigation into the Tshwane water contamination crisis, which has left more than 800 people ill after the city failed to chlorinate water for three weeks.
- 05:32
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival have each vowed to form a government after the first election fell short, with voters turning out in the highest numbers in decades.
- 05:31
The police minister says the state is obliged to pay a minister's 2.7 million rand legal bill, arguing the policy covers executive members for acts committed in the course of their official duties.
- 05:41
The brain teaser answer was Michael Faraday's electric generator, invented 195 years ago in 1831, which ran on a turning wheel rather than the diesel or petrol that powered most load-shedding backups.