RC 261022Cape TalkJohn Maytham
Thursday, 22 October 2026
Taxi violence, looming water restrictions and a Tshwane contamination probe dominated Afternoon Drive, alongside a Supreme Court ruling on adoption and biological family priority.
- 16:01
Two men were killed and another wounded at Maitland station in a shooting police suspect is taxi-related, the second such attack in Cape Town after a Delft shooting that morning.
- 16:08
The national water department says Western Cape supply levels are too low and restrictions are required, with agricultural users told how much less to use early next month.
- 15:31
The City of Cape Town spends over R300 million a year combating extortion, including security escorts for workers and contractors, and has logged 56 extortion-related challenges on its projects this year.
- 17:31
The Public Protector has launched an investigation into alleged maladministration by the City of Tshwane after a water contamination crisis linked to over 400 gastrointestinal illness cases.
- 15:43
The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that social workers' conduct in two adoption cases was unlawful and unconstitutional, and that biological family does not automatically take priority in adoption.