RC 261012SAfmBridget Masinga
Monday, 12 October 2026
Monday's show was dominated by the ANC's Constitutional Court challenge over disqualified candidate lists and the launch of the Batupili Convention's public school alumni drive in Soweto.
- 13:02
The ANC is challenging the IEC's disqualification of its candidate lists in six municipalities at the Constitutional Court, arguing the disputed submit-as-final button is software, not law.
- 14:01
Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has resigned from the SAPS while facing a disciplinary hearing, and his employment has been terminated with immediate effect.
- 13:03
Two accused in the June killing of EFF Region 2 secretary Monika Dube, shot in front of her family north of Pretoria, appeared in court; the case was postponed to Thursday.
- 13:04
Transnet's annual Iron Ore Line maintenance shutdown runs from 6 to 16 October, targeting loops 14 to 17 on the 861-kilometre line that must carry 60 million tons of iron ore.
- 13:27
Batupili Convention's Soweto pilot asks public school alumni for R3,000 a year or R250 a month to fund repairs at local schools, starting with 264 Soweto schools.