RC 261027SAfmJon Gericke
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Night Fall focused on the local government election candidate lists, a Western Cape bilingual maths rollout, and how fact-checkers across Africa work under political pressure.
- 22:00
Minister Ronald Lamola urged law enforcement to protect migrants from elsewhere on the continent. Government says more than 100 cases are before the courts and over 40 investigations into anti-migrant violence are under way.
- 22:02
Former President Thabo Mbeki expects the November local elections to produce hung municipalities, with coalition governments forcing parties into compromises that he says may weaken decisive policymaking.
- 22:47
Candidacies for the local government elections are up about 40% on 2021's roughly 99,000, analyst Michael Atkins told Night Fall, after the IEC published its final candidate lists.
- 22:15
From next year, grade one maths will be taught in home languages including isiXhosa across Western Cape schools, after a 70-school pilot run by Funda Wande and the Western Cape Education Department.
- 22:49
Atkins says independents rarely win, with about 50 winning across more than 4,000 wards, because ward ballots also count toward party proportional totals, so voters often back their party instead.