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Thursday, 5 November 2026
Vote counting from the local government elections and a stolen ballot-stamp security scare led a chatty Thursday wake-up show, with a Taylor Swift brain teaser and listener calls filling the rest.
- 05:31
The IEC is counting millions of ballots from the local government elections, with 12 million South Africans having voted by 5 p.m. before polling stations closed at 9 p.m.
- 05:32
A security stamp and unmarked ballots were stolen from a voting station outside the city on Tuesday night during special voting, and a new security stamp was issued for Wednesday's voting.
- 05:42
The Daybreak brain teaser was answered as Taylor Swift, whose 10th studio album had Anti-Hero as its lead single and helped her occupy the entire Billboard Hot 100 top 10 in 2022.