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Friday, 6 November 2026

Friday's early show was dominated by local government election counting, with Johannesburg and Buffalo City Metro shaping up as coalition battlegrounds, alongside a 1928 electric razor brain teaser.

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  1. 05:32

    Johannesburg counting has the DA at about 41%, well ahead of the ANC's 16% and ActionSA's 15%, so it will likely need a coalition partner to govern the city.

  2. 05:32

    Buffalo City Metro in the Eastern Cape looks set for its first-ever coalition, with the ANC on 42% and the DA on 17%, and parties already preparing for negotiations.

  3. 05:42

    The daily brain teaser's answer was the electric razor: Colonel Jacob Schick received a patent for it in 1928, 98 years before this broadcast.