RC 260910SAfmSakina Kamwendo
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Drug manufacturing busts, a refugee and asylum-seeker protest, and Zimbabweans awaiting repatriation dominated the midday bulletin, alongside scrutiny of alleged political influence over policing.
- 12:51
Police uncovered a clandestine Mandrax laboratory in Erasmia capable of producing up to 800,000 tablets daily, arresting two foreign nationals and warning the syndicate fight continues.
- 12:55
Security expert Willem Els said South Africa is evolving from a drug transit and consumption market into a production base for synthetic drugs exported internationally.
- 12:20
More than 300 people sheltering at Johannesburg’s former Zimbabwean consulate face inadequate water and toiletries, while roughly 3,000 Zimbabweans nationwide await government-assisted repatriation.
- 12:25
March and March protesters in eThekwini moved to the pavement opposite refugees and asylum seekers, saying they would sleep there until government addressed the situation.
- 12:29
Most parties on Parliament’s ad hoc committee supported wording that businessman Brown Mohotzi exerted disproportionate influence over police minister Senzo Mchunu; ANC MPs opposed the conclusion.