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Thursday, 22 October 2026
Budget fuel relief, Mbeki's commission testimony and Tshwane's water crisis dominated this Thursday edition, with Amanpour's CNN exit and the Netflix and music segments rounding it out.
- 20:02
Motorists get fuel levy relief from early December, with the levy lowered again in January, after record fuel price hikes this month, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced in the medium-term budget policy statement.
- 20:13
Former president Thabo Mbeki told the Khampepe Commission he did not direct, authorise or approve suppressing NPA investigations or prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes referred by the TRC, saying prosecution decisions rest with the NPA.
- 20:08
Tshwane residents just want to know when clean water is coming, not who will be prosecuted, as the water crisis turns political days before the elections and the opposition trades blame over the cholera outbreak.
- 20:22
Ian Cameron, chair of the Portfolio Committee on Police, says festive-season special operations make many arrests, but the forensic and prosecutorial capacity to secure convictions is lacking.
- 20:17
Amanpour is leaving CNN after 43 years, with her daily show ending at year's end, though she will continue Amanpour weekly through June and keep her podcast going.