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Sunday, 1 November 2026
Election-week episode dominated by Johannesburg mayoral candidates grilled on an unfunded budget and water losses, alongside the MK Party's campaign boost and stalled apartheid-era prosecutions.
- 20:01
The IEC says 2.6 million voters have registered for special votes in the local government elections, with 678,000 expected to vote from home, and urges voters to check weather forecasts before going to the polls.
- 20:13
Auditor General says Johannesburg's budget is unfunded, with R2.4 billion in unauthorised spending and a R10.3 billion wage agreement with Samwu lacking a funding source; the city has proposed cutting R2 billion from repairs.
- 20:18
Johannesburg loses close to half the water it buys from Rand Water, about R2.8 billion a year, with roughly R2 billion leaking from old pipes and nearly R800 million stolen or never billed.
- 20:02
MK Party supporters say Jacob Zuma's first public appearance since his hospital discharge, at the party's final election rally, could boost its first local government election campaign.
- 20:30
Khulumani Support Group says a total lack of political will has stalled prosecutions, with about 300 cases brought before the TRC still unresolved more than three decades on.