Saturday, 17 October 2026

Parliament's police committee chair Ian Cameron welcomed the lifting of National Police Commissioner Fanny Masemola's precautionary suspension, imposed in April, after the NPA withdrew its charges. Masemola returns to office on Monday.

Combined levels of Cape Town's system dams are at 15 percent, below the same period last year. The Department of Water and Sanitation will announce water restrictions for the Western Cape on 2 November.

Angola and Uganda have joined South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania in a regional effort against drug trafficking and organised crime, following a three-day meeting in Pretoria that agreed to share intelligence.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says an oil tanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion, and accused its crew of using an unauthorised route.