RC 261109Power FMColleen Makhubele
Monday, 9 November 2026
Local government election fallout dominated the episode, with 137 hung councils, a battered ANC and a 14-day window to form coalitions, alongside Vusi Mathebula's Madlanga Commission claims of pressure from investigators.
- 20:00
Alleged underworld figure Vusi Mathebula told the Madlanga Commission that IDAC investigators tried to pressure him into implicating senior police officials, including Fannie Masemola, and took him from prison without his lawyer.
- 21:11
The ANC posted its worst election result in history, with about 30% nationally, while the DA sat at 24% and MK at 9%, leaving 137 councils hung with no outright majority.
- 22:44
Coalition talks must conclude within 14 days, with the first council sitting on 19 November to elect the speaker and mayor; until then the municipal manager runs day-to-day services.
- 23:01
Mathebula also alleged that a former lawyer of Shadrack Sibiya warned him Sibiya had threatened to kill his family if he revealed everything he knew, and told him not to disclose the full extent of their contact.
- 20:03
City Power warned thousands of Johannesburg residents could stay without electricity after a fire at the Mayfair substation damaged seven cables, a transformer and electrical panels, with heavy rain delaying repairs.