RC 260811Cape TalkClarence Ford
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Crime, campus shutdowns and hard-hitting interviews dominated the morning, with Western Cape shootings, the Madlanga Commission delay and powerful Women’s Month conversations taking centre stage.
- 10:01
Cape Flats Safety Forum said Operation Prosper has delivered little in the Western Cape’s crime fight after 11 people were killed in separate shootings over the weekend, urging proactive intelligence-led policing and more military support.
- 10:00
Fadiel Adams’ testimony at the Madlanga Commission was postponed to 19 August after his written statement arrived too late on Monday night; Justice Muiseni Madlanga said the Commission was not being taken seriously.
- 11:01
CPUT lectures were suspended as students shut down campuses over the proposed 2027 financial plan, with anger also focused on a demanded upfront payment of R7,000 for registration and residence.
- 10:15
Afghan activist Horia Mossadegh described Taliban rule as gender apartheid, saying women have been banned from school beyond Grade 6, universities, work and public life, and praised South Africa’s resistance history.
- 11:26
Former provincial police commissioner Leonard Max shared a rags-to-rank story from farm labourer to lieutenant general, saying education, integrity and refusing injustice carried him through poverty, apartheid-era discrimination and politics.