RC 261114Power FMLusanda and Kosha
Saturday, 14 November 2026
Power News bulletins dominated this Power Jams episode, with municipal council deadlines, a Phala Phala impeachment court ruling and Madlanga Commission testimony leading the headlines.
- 10:01
Municipalities across the country have 14 days to convene their first council meetings, now that the IEC has gazetted the newly elected councillors, marking the final stage of the local government elections.
- 10:02
Three ward by-elections will follow the deaths of elected candidates in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, while four wards were decided by coin toss after exactly equal vote counts.
- 10:05
The Western Cape High Court dismissed an EFF and APLA challenge to the impeachment committee's withdrawal of a proposed Phala Phala evidence leader, clearing the way for the committee to resume its work.
- 11:03
Former JMPD senior officer Phineas Manyama is accused at the Madlanga Commission of pressuring police officers to accept a bribe and release two suspects arrested in a cocaine bust.
- 11:03
Six people died in two Limpopo road crashes within 48 hours, including three minibus taxi passengers killed on the N1 outside Polokwane when a vehicle overturned, possibly after a tyre burst.