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Monday, 12 October 2026
Monday's show focused on strain in the South African Police Service, including stalled recruitment and overloaded detectives, alongside asylum deportation rules and practical cybersecurity advice for small businesses.
- 03:38
5,500 police trainee posts advertised in 2025 drew over a million applications, but none were enlisted in February 2026 because medical assessments could not be completed.
- 03:39
Detectives are overloaded, with one handling 600 to 800 case dockets. In the past year 1,031 detectives left the service, including 245 in Gauteng and 153 in KwaZulu-Natal.
- 05:32
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber says asylum seekers whose claims fail will be deported, and that the Constitutional Court ruling does not strip Home Affairs of its power to adjudicate applications.
- 05:14
Household debt rose to 61.8% of disposable income in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from 61.5% in the third quarter, according to the South African Reserve Bank, leaving less money available for saving.
- 04:50
Criminals target small businesses because they lack big IT budgets. Multi-factor authentication costs nothing and is already built into most major email and banking apps, a cybercrime expert told listeners.