RC 261027Power FMKwena Moabelo
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Election-season debate dominated this Power Lunch, sitting alongside the army deployment to KwaZulu-Natal, a NUMSA leadership crisis, and a Supreme Court adoption ruling on women's rights.
- 12:01
President Ramaphosa has deployed 510 SANDF members to KwaZulu-Natal to support police after immigration-related unrest in Durban, under Operation Prosper until 30 November, costing over R34 million.
- 12:02
NUMSA's Central Committee stripped Secretary General Irvin Jim and other national office bearers of their delegated powers, citing a leadership crisis, after a Labour Court ruling on Mpumalanga delegates. The national congress is due late November.
- 12:03
The Construction Industry Development Board removed 65 contractors from its register for submitting false information to inflate their grading levels, and says every remaining contractor will now be audited.
- 12:51
Gauteng's Roads and Transport department found 150 taxi operators without valid operating licences and 57 minibus taxis without valid licence discs, with seven drink-driving arrests and three over fraud or bribery.
- 12:35
The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the Department of Social Development's appeal, upholding findings that social workers violated two women's dignity and privacy while obstructing their adoption decisions.