RC 260817SAfmAshraf Garda
Monday, 17 August 2026
A day dominated by Kat Matlala’s self-incrimination-heavy Madlanga Commission testimony, while SADC, NSFAS funding pressures and prison corruption also drew sharp listener reaction.
- 15:13
Kat Matlala said he would invoke self-incrimination on the Medicare 24 SAPS tender, denied any relationship with Senzo Mchunu, and told the commission he had never met him.
- 16:02
He later said former police minister Bheki Cele told him Mchunu allegedly wanted Feroz Khan to replace Dumisani Kumalo as crime intelligence head, a claim central to the commission’s probe.
- 15:46
The SADC summit in Durban was overshadowed outside by a March and March protest that drew only about 200 people, far fewer than the 3,000 organisers had expected.
- 15:55
Higher education leaders said NSFAS faces a R15 billion funding gap, with rising accommodation costs worsening the squeeze and forcing a rethink on how free higher education is funded.
- 16:11
A criminal justice expert said the alleged ‘bed-for-cash’ and sexual coercion claims at Tshwane’s Khosi Mampuru II prison point to a wider prison economy driven by overcrowding and weak control.