RC 261016Power FMKwena Moabelo
Friday, 16 October 2026
Politics dominated Friday's POWER Lunch: reinstated ANC candidates, the police commissioner's return, and Suliman Carrim's court appearance, alongside a listener debate on Grade 1 failures.
- 12:01
The Constitutional Court set aside the disqualification of 181 ANC councillor candidates in six municipalities, forcing the IEC to print new ballots for the 4 November polls.
- 12:00
The National Police Commissioner's suspension has been lifted and he returns to work Monday 19 October, after the NPA withdrew his case in September.
- 13:00
Suliman Carrim appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on contempt charges for failing to appear before the Madlanga Commission, after being arrested at OR Tambo as he was about to fly to the UAE.
- 12:04
Police arrested a 34-year-old man in Ekurhuleni accused of mixing sleeping pills into his family's food, killing two daughters aged 1 and 11; he faces two murder counts.