Tuesday, 3 November 2026

President Donald Trump has confirmed in a letter to the South African president that South Africa will be removed from the AGOA trade agreement, ending its benefits from 2027.

The High Court set aside Sizekaya Holdings' national lottery licence award over a technical procedural irregularity, not the bid itself. Lottery operations continue as usual.

IEC KwaZulu-Natal still had 83,315 special-vote home visits to conduct on the day before the election, having reached only 51 percent of them. Police reinforcement at storage facilities has been requested.

Refining makes up only about 10 to 20 percent of the pump price of petrol, with crude oil, taxes and levies making up the rest, according to Henry Gilfillan at the FIASA webinar.

The IEC's roughly R3 billion budget for the local government elections, spread across about 29.2 million voters, works out to roughly R102 per vote, according to former commissioner Terry Zelani.