RC 261010947Mantsoe Pout
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Mostly listener sports-loyalty and household-boundary chat, but the news segments were dominated by fallout from anti-illegal-immigration protests in Soweto and Durban.
- 07:00
Home Affairs has paused implementing a Constitutional Court ruling on asylum applications, after protesters gathered at the Soweto office. Some residents said the pause came too late.
- 08:02
The police ministry says it does not have R600 million to budget every time anti-illegal immigration groups protest, as police readiness is questioned after violent Soweto and Durban unrest.
- 09:02
Anti-illegal immigration groups in Durban vowed to keep making the city ungovernable until demands to deport undocumented foreign nationals are met. Three houses were torched and shops looted.
- 07:01
The UN Human Rights Office welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Justice Navi Pillay, the fifth South African to receive it. She accepts it on behalf of human rights practitioners worldwide.
- 09:04
The ANC will appeal a Gauteng High Court ruling ordering it to restore Andile Lungisa to its PR list for Nelson Mandela Bay, after the party's secretary-general was found to have acted unlawfully.