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Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Mostly relationship talk and music, but the news segments carried the weightiest items: testimony on apartheid-era prosecution interference, a Tshwane water crisis and calls for fuel levy relief.
- 10:02
Former acting National Prosecuting Head Silas Ramaite told the inquiry that in 2004 Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla directed him to await a mandate from an interdepartmental amnesty task team, and he said he was unhappy with that instruction.
- 10:03
The inquiry heard that about 400 TRC-related dockets were moved to the Scorpions on former police commissioner JK Selebi's instructions, including the 1989 poisoning case of Reverend Frank Chikane.
- 10:04
Rand Water has been engaged to help restore Tshwane's water treatment works after unchlorinated water was supplied for three weeks, with 408 gastrointestinal illness cases reported.
- 09:04
Rhodes University in Makanda has reported 109 gastro illness cases among students, and says water quality testing and safe drinking water in dining halls are under way.
- 11:03
Build One South Africa's leader wants an unspent R10 billion allocation used to temporarily cut the general fuel levy in November, ahead of Finance Minister Godongwana's mid-term budget statement.