RC 261104Cape TalkClarence Ford
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election-day Cape Talk coverage of long queues, a boycott threat in Mfuleni, fallout from South Africa's AGOA suspension, and rising political killings, with listeners sharing their voting experiences.
- 09:05
The US has ended South Africa's preferential tariff-free access from January. Analyst Sol Levin says Washington no longer sees South Africa as a strategic partner, adding pressure to agriculture and automotive exporters.
- 10:01
Residents of an informal settlement of more than 1,000 homes say they will boycott the vote, citing years without reliable water or electricity and having to cross the N2 to fetch water.
- 11:22
Prof Lisa Thompson says 53 political killings have been recorded this year, 10 of them in the last month, with criminal networks increasingly tied to tenders and patronage.
- 10:37
Clarence Ford advises voters to look up their voting station online and bring the sequence number, which speeds up the manual step of striking names off the voters' roll.