Thursday, 13 August 2026

Lieutenant General Sizakele Tianchi said his first priorities as Western Cape police commissioner are tackling gun violence, illegal firearms, weak station capacity, intelligence failures and police corruption.

Karen Dolly argued South Africa’s underworld, politics and policing are deeply intertwined, saying drug trafficking depends on corruption and that the Madlanga Commission is exposing only a sliver of a much bigger system.

Listeners split over a proposed National Men’s Day, with several rejecting a public holiday and saying men’s mental health, accountability and GBV need year-round action instead of a symbolic day.

The WCED said there is no school rule barring Sans Souci Girls learners from a nearby store, but confirmed the shop imposed its own entry restriction after earlier incidents and urged the school and business to resolve it directly.