RC 261102Cape TalkClarence Ford
Monday, 2 November 2026
Election week dominated Monday's Clarence Ford show, with late ballot deliveries in Cape Town, the taxi violence that disrupted the city, a warning on medicine stockouts, and a fight over a proposed Bergfleet school.
- 09:01
Cape Town taxis resumed normal operations after days of disruption caused by a dispute between Carter and Codeta over the Delft, Langa and Epping route, which has killed about a dozen people in three weeks.
- 09:33
Special voting got off to a rocky start: 217 Cape Metro voting stations could not open at 8am because ballot papers arrived late, and the IEC's Michael Hendrickse apologised, saying stations open as ballots arrive.
- 09:55
50 critical medicines face supply pressures and stockouts, including morphine and oncology drugs. A pharmaceutical executive blamed unpaid provincial health department accounts, which lead suppliers to freeze shipments, creating artificial stockouts.
- 11:13
Bergfleet residents say their own traffic study finds about 53% more load than the city's assessment, which was done on a school exam day. They oppose the proposed mega school on Rushkin Road.