RC 261014Cape TalkJohn Maytham
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Cosatu's leadership change, Zuma's postponed testimony and a contested police promotion led an afternoon that also covered judicial vacancies and a cut in dairy milk prices.
- 15:01
South Africa's largest trade union federation, Cosatu, has elected Mike Shingange as its new president at its 15th National Congress. Shingange is a former president of Nehawu and a former first deputy president of Cosatu.
- 15:03
Former President Jacob Zuma's testimony before the TRC inquiry into delayed prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes, scheduled for next Thursday, will be postponed to a date yet to be confirmed, following his hospitalisation.
- 15:31
Parliament's police committee chair Ian Cameron says SAPS must explain who approved the promotion of Colonel Delmore Manuel to station commander, despite assault and torture charges that are still pending against him.
- 16:15
The Judicial Service Commission failed to fill the Labour Court's deputy judge president post, and the judge president retires at month-end, leaving the court without leadership from 1 November.
- 15:21
A major milk buyer is paying farmers 70 cents a litre less for raw milk, roughly a 10% cut, which dairy farmers' representatives say they cannot absorb amid rising energy and input costs.