RC 260811SAfmSakina Kamwendo
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Unemployment’s jump to 33.6% dominated the hour, alongside a deadly illegal-mining disaster near Rustenburg and warnings over Johannesburg power outages and Westbury violence.
- 12:09
South Africa’s official unemployment rate rose to 33.6% in the second quarter, with 345,000 more unemployed people and 8.5 million out of work, while employed numbers fell to 16.7 million.
- 12:20
Police in Nkaneng near Rustenburg found 14 bodies of suspected illegal miners in an abandoned shaft after a rock fall; eight others were hospitalised and more may still be underground.
- 12:34
City Power said a snapped overhead line at Delta substation cut supply to about 25 substations, leaving 2,450 outage calls open and prompting warnings that 20% of the network is 60 to 70 years old.
- 12:58
Westbury residents were still meeting over gang violence, with the focus narrowed to crime, stability and economic fixes such as jobs through patrolling and repurposing closed factories.