Friday, 9 October 2026

Home Affairs withdrew its 28 September directive expanding asylum seeker applications after the Constitutional Court ruling, following violent protests that saw 24 vehicles torched countrywide and property vandalised.

In Durban's CBD, 14 vehicles were torched and several buildings set alight after an alleged assault on a march participant. Police have made no public violence arrests, only three foreign nationals held for the assault.

South African jurist Navi Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting peace and international law, the Nobel Committee said, with the prize to be presented in Oslo in December.

Police portfolio committee chairperson Ian Cameron has begun publishing names and faces of convicted sex offenders on social media, saying the National Sex Offenders Register has remained closed to the public.

Stats SA says the next census will run in 2031, because funding constraints mean the community survey normally held between censuses will not go ahead this cycle.