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Thursday, 8 October 2026
Court updates in the Shadrack Sibiya case and government's asylum-ruling clarification led the news, while listeners debated a secret half-brother found in a late father's file.
- 10:01
Refugee reception offices may no longer turn away asylum applicants, the Inter-Ministerial Committee says, though the Constitutional Court ruling does not automatically grant refugee status or the right to remain illegally.
- 10:03
Lawyers for top cop Shadrack Sibiya allege the father of his 16-year-old accuser offered to drop charges for R300,000, according to an affidavit. Sibiya's bail hearing is postponed to next Tuesday.
- 11:04
The Pretoria Magistrates' Court rejected activist Kemi Seba's claim of diplomatic immunity, finding no evidence he was accredited as a diplomat, bringing him a step closer to facing charges in Benin.
- 11:21
A listener who found a file suggesting her late father may have had another child was advised to start with her mother, before any effort to trace the young man.