RC 261113SAfmCathy Mohlahlana
Friday, 13 November 2026
Coalition deadlines dominated the show as about 138 councils remain hung and parties jockey for deals, while Madlanga Commission testimony and rising domestic job losses also stood out.
- 06:10
About 138 councils are hung, and the new councils must sit within 14 days of results being declared, leaving parties roughly a week to strike coalition deals.
- 06:11
Unemployment sits at 33.7%, and 31,000 domestic worker jobs were lost in a single quarter, leaving the number of such jobs at its lowest level since the 2020 lockdown.
- 06:15
An acting NICOC coordinator told the Madlanga Commission that criminal syndicates had infiltrated the state so deeply by February last year that the country was gone, prompting intelligence intervention in Gauteng.
- 07:14
Government is paying a once-off gratuity to councillors leaving office, funded by R300 million shifted from the municipal infrastructure grant. Full five-year councillors get three months' salary; shorter terms get less.
- 07:23
Police figures given to Parliament show about 1.79 million of roughly 9 million calls to 10111 were abandoned last financial year, roughly one in five.