RC 261014Power FMKwena Moabelo
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Labour, courts and food policy dominated: Cosatu elected a new president, the Sibiya bail fight dragged on, and Health Wednesday questioned what is really in our food.
- 14:01
Mike Shingange was elected Cosatu president at its 15th National Congress, winning 973 of 1,816 delegate votes to succeed the outgoing president.
- 13:01
Former SAPS deputy national commissioner Shadrack Sibiya's counsel told the Randburg Magistrate's Court there are no pending criminal cases against him, as his bail bid entered its fifth week.
- 12:01
Parliament's Section 89 impeachment committee is defending its reversal of Madonsela's recommendation as chief evidence leader in the Western Cape High Court, after the president raised conflict-of-interest concerns.
- 13:02
Kingpin Vusimuzi Matlala abandoned his bail application in a fraud and forgery case over a luxury Pretoria lease, and the matter is postponed to 29 October for further investigation.
- 14:11
Draft front-of-pack warning label regulations published in April 2023 are still not finalised, while the sugar industry is calling for the health promotion levy, the sugar tax, to be scrapped.