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Friday, 16 October 2026
Friday's show was mostly music and listener chat, but the 6 o'clock bulletin covered the election ballot fallout, the police commissioner's reinstatement and City Power's Johannesburg outage.
- 18:02
The Electoral Commission has extended a Constitutional Court ruling on excluded candidates to 32 other political parties, affecting 107 municipalities. Parties may also substitute candidate names where they appear on multiple lists.
- 18:03
Compliance verifications found that 13 other political parties did not meet the requirements, so they were not included in the extended ruling.
- 18:03
President Ramaphosa lifted the suspension of the National Police Commissioner, in place since April, after the NPA withdrew charges last month in the Medicare 24 corruption case.
- 18:04
City Power now expects power restored to Marshall Town and surrounding Johannesburg inner-city areas by next Tuesday, after an explosion at its central substation earlier this week.