RC 261029947Nick Explicit
Thursday, 29 October 2026
A light Thursday morning on Daybreak, with a brain teaser about Nelson Mandela's former secretary and news on an IEC control centre and a murder conviction.
- 05:32
The IEC launched a new control centre at Gallagher Estate, saying systems are in place to prevent a repeat of the last election's blank results board, which went dark for about two hours.
- 05:31
Three years after a school teacher was found dead on a jogging trail while 14 weeks pregnant, her convicted murderer, a 23-year-old man, is yet to be sentenced.
- 05:32
A man who repeatedly failed to appear at the Madlanga Commission was granted R100,000 bail and faces a charge of contravening the Commission's Act.
- 05:41
Listeners confirmed the brain teaser answer: Nelson Mandela's former private secretary, who turned 56 that day and wrote the 2014 memoir Good Morning, Mr. Mandela.