RC 260820SAfmJon Gericke
Thursday, 20 August 2026
Nightfall mixed hard news and long-form analysis on election-linked political killings, an online exploitation network called 764, and women’s economic safety and second chances.
- 23:01
NCOP members want a forensic probe into the Rustenburg Rapid Transport Project after more than R3 billion has been spent and the municipality asked for more funding to finish it.
- 23:53
Political killings are being driven by municipal power struggles over candidate lists and tenders, with violence increasingly happening inside parties rather than between them ahead of the 4 November local elections.
- 22:45
Mark Russell described 764 as an internationally linked online network using gaming and social platforms to groom children into child sexual abuse material, self-harm and animal mutilation through coercion and extortion.
- 23:45
Lerato Manaka argued women’s safety depends on economic independence, saying many remain trapped in abusive relationships or stigma because they cannot afford to leave or start over.