Friday, 16 October 2026

A heavy Friday on The National Pulse, dominated by the IEC reopening candidate lists for 32 parties, Suliman Carrim's arrest and bail fight, and the death of a Lions player in France.

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The IEC will let 32 other parties submit candidate lists for the 4 November local elections, saying excluding them after the Constitutional Court's ANC ruling would be irrational.
15:11
The state argues Suliman Carrim, arrested at OR Tambo bound for Dubai on a one-way ticket, is a flight risk, and his bail case resumes in Pretoria on Monday.
15:35
The President has reinstated the National Commissioner of Police, who returns to full duties on 19 October after the NPA and a court vindicated him on charges he called baseless.
15:31
A Lions player in his 30s was found unconscious in a hotel shower in France, a day before the Champions Cup match against La Rochelle; his identity has not been released.

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