RC 261016SAfmBertha Charuma
Friday, 16 October 2026
Mostly listener song requests and ads in this Friday Chill Zone excerpt, with the substantive content limited to the 8pm news bulletin on local elections, KwaZulu-Natal killings, drug labs and fuel costs.
- 20:01
The CSIR's Election Prediction Framework says coalition governments are likely to be a permanent feature of local government after the November 4 polls, based on voter behaviour patterns and results sequencing.
- 20:02
Two ANC members were killed in Mkobaba on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. An ANC ward election coordinator and a campaign volunteer were shot dead while canvassing door to door, and three other volunteers were wounded.
- 20:03
Police arrested four people after finding a suspected Mandrax drug laboratory in Soweto, the latest in a string of such discoveries across the province. The house had been under observation before the swoop.
- 20:04
Agriculture Minister warned at World Food Day in the northwest that rising fuel costs and an expected El Nino, bringing a hot, dry summer, will hit farmers and push up food prices for consumers.
- 20:05
Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank, leaving several wounded. The BBC's Lucy Williamson witnessed the attacks near Abu Falah.