RC 261112SAfmSakina Kamwendo
Thursday, 12 November 2026
Politics and accountability dominated this midday update, with Madlanga Commission testimony on criminal links to politics and the ANC reflecting on a sharp fall in local election support.
- 12:03
Acting NICOC coordinator told the Madlanga Commission that growing links between politics and the criminal underworld are a major national security threat, with political murders and intimidation peaking around the 2021 local elections.
- 12:15
The ANC's extended NEC began meeting to reflect on local election results, after its support fell from about 46 percent to just above 30 percent, and to review its 2023 coalition framework.
- 12:02
Ramaphosa told the Access to Justice conference in Sun City there cannot be one standard of justice for the powerful and another for the weak, urging consistent defence of human rights and accountability.
- 12:43
The International Federation of Christian Churches is calling for suspension of the CRL Rights Commission's Section 22 consultation, arguing the process causes division and fear and that churches should instead agree a code of conduct.