RC 261020Kaya 959Andy Maqondwana
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Mostly light Feel Good segments, but the news bulletins carried a Zitobeni water crisis, Lumka Oliphant's reinstatement ruling, and bail decisions in two high-profile cases.
- 12:03
Former social development spokesperson Lumka Oliphant won her unfair dismissal case. The bargaining council ruled the dismissal procedurally unfair and ordered her reinstatement plus R1.5 million in back pay.
- 12:01
A gastrointestinal illness outbreak in Zitobeni, Bronkhorstspruit, has affected 408 people, mostly children under four. Residents have stopped drinking tap water and are relying on boreholes.
- 13:03
The NPA welcomed the denial of bail to former Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, who faces rape, sexual grooming and human trafficking charges. The case is postponed to 24 November.
- 14:00
A former crime intelligence head was granted R5,000 bail by the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court. He is charged with unlawfully possessing more than 100 rounds of SAPS-issued ammunition, and the matter is back on 3 November.
- 12:03
The trial of an El Dorado Park couple accused of murdering their four-year-old daughter was postponed again, this time to the following day in the Johannesburg High Court.