RC 261008SAfm
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Asylum and immigration protests turned violent in Durban and Soweto, while the show also covered a R10 billion fuel relief package and a shift in how state-owned entities will be overseen.
- 18:01
Anti-immigration protests spread across several cities over asylum processing. In Durban's CBD shops were looted and vehicles torched, forcing the Home Affairs refugee reception centre to suspend operations.
- 18:53
The Standing Committee on Appropriations adopted a report on a second special appropriations bill allowing R10 billion to move from the National Revenue Fund to the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources to stabilise fuel costs.
- 18:17
Transnet Ports Authority has entered a 25-year lease with the Freeport special economic zone for about 55 hectares of land inside the port, giving prospective investors certainty to advance stalled projects.
- 18:43
Government has dropped a planned holding company for state-owned entities in favour of a commission potentially chaired by the President. Professor Adrian Saville says this raises fresh governance questions.