RC 261020Power FMKwena Moabelo
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Mbeki's Khampepe Commission testimony and the Bronkhorstspruit water crisis dominated Power Lunch, with callers split on whether past political compromises should be questioned.
- 14:01
More than 400 people, most of them children, fell ill in Bronkhorstspruit after the water supply ran without chlorine from 24 September to about 14 October. The EFF wants Mayor Nasiphi Moya to resign.
- 14:01
Mayor Nasiphi Moya said the city takes responsibility for the negligence, blaming a chlorine monopoly supplier that sharply raised prices and left the municipality unable to negotiate before it ran out.
- 12:04
A legal analyst said pardons granted under Thabo Mbeki's administration could raise questions of executive interference in TRC-linked prosecutions, after Mbeki denied joining security talks to delay them.
- 13:04
A 56-year-old former police general was arrested for unlawful possession of more than 100 rounds of SAPS-issued ammunition, as part of the Cold Case Unit's probe into the murder of a lieutenant general.