RC 261027SAfmBridget Masinga
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Crime, a military deployment and Gauteng's water losses dominated this talk-heavy Full Circle, with a melanoma vaccine breakthrough and a fashion designer's business advice rounding out the afternoon.
- 13:01
A 34-year-old Eldorado Park man was sentenced to two life terms in the Johannesburg High Court for the August 2025 rape and murder of his four-year-old daughter. His name will go on the sex offenders register.
- 14:03
510 SANDF soldiers have been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal to support police, with the presidency saying the aim is a peaceful environment ahead of the local government elections after misinformation-driven violence and looting.
- 13:04
About 7 billion rand a year is lost to aging infrastructure and non-revenue water, according to the Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, speaking at a provincial workshop on the draft water framework.
- 13:03
The Construction Industry Development Board has opened more than 50 cases with police over alleged construction-sector wrongdoing, and 75 contractors have been removed from the register for misrepresentation.
- 14:27
A personalised mRNA vaccine for melanoma, built from each patient's own tumour, may prevent recurrence by up to 42% when combined with other immunotherapy, according to trial results discussed with Dr Judy Pretorius.