RC 261104Cape TalkLester Kiewit
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Election day in the Western Cape opened with long early queues, questions over Monday's ballot deliveries, and the DA's majority under threat in Cape Town.
- 06:17
Ballot papers failed to reach at least 217 voting stations during Monday's special votes, the IEC says, though it reports everything was delivered by close of business.
- 06:05
The US has ended tariff-free access for a range of South African products from January, a move a trade analyst says shows Washington no longer sees South Africa as a strategic partner.
- 06:32
Residents of more than 1,000 homes in the Mfuleni informal settlement say they will boycott the vote after more than six years without basic services and daily crossings of the N2 for water.
- 06:05
Parliament announced the sudden death of NCOP Secretary Modibedi Pindela, a long-serving official who had led the council's administration since 2010.
- 06:44
A one-year-old boy drowned in an exposed manhole outside his Philippi home, and the city has launched an investigation after residents said the site had not been secured since August.