RC 261011Cape TalkSara-Jayne Makwala King
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Asylum policy dominated the episode, with the Inter-Ministerial Committee unveiling a new registration model and a court strategy, alongside riot arrests and a Cape Town township fire.
- 11:00
The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration has welcomed a Home Affairs model for asylum applications: a phased registration and appointment system starting 10 November, with online receipts and appointments at refugee reception offices.
- 10:00
Government will return to court to seek a supervisory order over the Constitutional Court asylum judgment, and may ask for a suspension period so Home Affairs can build the administrative capacity to implement it.
- 11:01
Police have arrested 30 suspects in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng after violent anti-illegal immigration protests that torched vehicles, burnt houses and looted shops, with charges still being added.
- 12:00
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber wants more legal practitioners and technology to speed up the asylum backlog, insisting the Constitutional Court ruling leaves final adjudication decisions with his department.
- 13:00
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says former president Jacob Zuma's health should remain a private matter, with information coming only from his doctors and family.