October 2026

The video reportedly shows Mandela telling citizens to stop voting for the ANC. It says the party has failed them and calls it corrupt. The video also includes allegations that the ANC stole pension funds.

These are claims made in the video itself. They are not established facts, and the video has not been verified.Share

NSFAS says the number is the highest it has recorded. The scheme says the rise shows growing demand for tertiary education.

Spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said the NSFAS Board will take part in the Final Push Outreach Programme. He said: "As part of our commitment to ensure that eligible students have access to financial assistance, the NSFAS Board will participate in the Final Push Outreach Programme".Share

Hill-Lewis spoke at a DA rally in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. He said one DA government created half the new jobs in the country's cities. He told the crowd: "Everywhere where the DA governs jobs come to that town or city."

The DA is an opposition party on the Nelson Mandela Bay council. It holds 48 of the 120 council seats and is campaigning for control of the metro.

Some residents said they hope for better jobs and easier access to education. A 21-year-old resident has been out of school since 2023 and has no job. The resident said the DA must create access to jobs.Share

A further 145 houses are under construction in Phase 2 of the project, which launched on Thursday. Ramaphosa said emergency accommodation must never become a permanent way of life. He said the end goal must be housing that delivers dignity.

Ramaphosa said government is changing its housing model to build integrated human settlements. These place housing near jobs, public services and economic opportunities. He said this is needed to reverse apartheid-era spatial planning.

The Cornubia development covers more than 1 300 hectares. It should house more than 110 000 people over the next 10 to 15 years. Building Phase I of the Cornubia Business Park created around 300 jobs, and the wider project should create more than 2 000 jobs.

Ramaphosa urged faster delivery and said construction problems and other delays must be resolved. He said government will not allow corruption, extortion or patronage in the development. He also asked residents to vote in the local government elections on 4 November.Share

Ramaphosa spoke to the media after a door-to-door campaign in Magabheni. He said the killings aim to destroy the efficacy of South Africa's democracy and roll back democratic gains. He said: "We condemn the killing of councillor candidates, whether serving or prospective, in the strongest terms."

Data from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, cited in the coverage, counts at least 42 people killed in suspected political assassinations since January 2026. The same period in 2025 saw 23 such killings. At least 10 people have died in political killings since the start of October.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli said in August that almost 18 councillors had been killed in the province since the 2021 local elections. He said eThekwini was the province's epicentre of political assassinations.

Ramaphosa also said the ANC will do extremely well and regain a majority in the eThekwini council. A poll of 1 000 registered voters by SABI Strategy Group modelled the MK Party at 43%, the DA at 30% and the ANC at 11%. He also spoke about anti-immigration unrest in Durban, after 510 SANDF members were deployed to KwaZulu-Natal.Share

The Titans batted first and made 157/6 in 20 overs. Lhuan-dre Pretorius hit 44 from 20 balls. Dayyaan Galiem finished on an unbeaten 33 and Duan Jansen was not out on 27, after a 62-run seventh-wicket partnership.

Regan Rhode took three wickets for 17 runs for the Badgers. Zack Momberg took two wickets and Leo Sadler took one.

In reply, openers Janneman Malan and Yaseen Valli put on 74 runs. Malan scored 43 from 28 balls and Valli made 28. Maloka then saw the Badgers home in the Super 8 match at Recreation Ground in Banstead.

The Titans are third in the Super 8 with two wins and two losses. Donovan Ferreira captains the side.Share

D'Sa worked at the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA). A report said he and his relatives were travelling to the SDCEA offices in Wentworth when the crash happened. Tributes have been pouring in, including from humanitarian activist Lubna Nadvi.

D'Sa won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014. He received the Diakonia Human Rights Award in 2013. His work centred on communities in South Durban.

In the SDCEA biography, D'Sa said: "We are not anti-development, but we are anti-air pollution. We welcome sustainable development,"Share

The application asks the court to stop March and March protests, convoys and processions in the province. It also seeks to stop intimidation or incitement by the movement's members and leaders.

Court papers say the applicants received intelligence about a planned action against the centre in Che Guevara Road this week. The papers also cite concern about escalating violence after the recent death of a foreign national, and about retribution for that murder.

Brigadier Thamsanqa Gama made the founding affidavit for the applicants. He said: "This application concerns an immediate threat to life, to personal safety, and public order in and around Durban as well as within the province of KwaZulu-Natal".

Sandile Dube, the national spokesperson for March and March, called the application "orchestrated efforts by the government to silence the people's voices barely days before the local government elections".Share

DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis said the final push should win his party a majority in Nelson Mandela Bay. He said the metro could become the first outside Cape Town with a solid DA majority government. Hill-Lewis and DA mayoral candidate Retief Odendaal both called the vote a make-or-break election for a metro troubled by political instability.

Nelson Mandela Bay has been under a coalition for 10 years. Speaking at the DA rally in Gqeberha, Hill-Lewis said: "We can turn it around forever,"

In Buffalo City, the ANC needs 51% for an outright majority. Recent polls put the party well below that level. The latest polls show both metros will be hotly contested, with no clear winner expected.Share

Wenger says the shortages come from several causes. She listed manufacturing constraints, international shipping disruptions, supplier backorders, procurement challenges, regulatory delays and testing delays. She says medicine supply problems affect the whole country.

The provincial health department has not yet established the nature and extent of the port delays. Quality testing of imported medicines can take three and four weeks before distribution. Wenger said: "Every day we can save in the supply chain is a day gained in getting essential medicines to our patients."

Wenger first raised her concerns on June 2. The issue went to the National Health Council on June 11. The national department of health said it knows about the stock-outs and is preparing a comprehensive statement.Share

The authors argue that when respiration slows more than photosynthesis, more carbon sinks to the deep ocean. This offers a physical explanation for part of a long-debated question in climate science. The paper is peer-reviewed. The quarter figure comes from the authors' modelling, and other researchers have not independently checked it. It is also an estimate of past climate, not a measurement.Share

Johannesburg Water said excessive draw-off causes low pressure, intermittent supply and outages. It will consider level 2 restrictions if demand keeps rising. Areas named include Crosby, Brixton, Parktown, Berea, Soweto, Midrand and Randburg.

DA Ward 101 councillor Ralf Bittkau blamed the government. He said: "This is not an agreement between parties. This is a failure by the government to supply adequate access to water," He also said Johannesburg's allocation from Rand Water should have been raised long ago.

Bittkau claimed Johannesburg Water loses 49.8% of its water to illegal connections, bypassed meters and pipe bursts. He said losses were 42.5% last year, and that the international accepted maximum is 19%.

The ANC in Greater Joburg questioned Rand Water's decision to restrict bulk supply to the city. The party said the move could deepen hardship for residents who already face unreliable water. Regional secretary Sasabona Manganye questioned the timing, close to the local government elections.Share

The study also found that the models give less consistent outputs than before. It reports that oversight by physicians keeps the gains in accuracy while lowering the safety risks. The research is peer-reviewed. Only a short summary of it was available to us, so the sample size, the datasets and the methods are not known. The full paper is needed to judge how strong the findings are.Share

Theia Henderson, an electrical engineering and computer science graduate student, is lead author. David Karger, a professor at MIT, is senior author. The system includes a "data guard" that protects user data from malicious or buggy applications. The team tested it with case studies and user tests, including a rideshare app and a shared art canvas. Social.Wiki is still early, and the researchers plan to refine it with a wider audience.Share

Mpumalanga police spokesperson Jabu Ndubane said security officers reported seeing a suspect flee the property. Weideman's body was then found with multiple gunshot wounds.

The farm is near Breyten, in the Ermelo area of Mpumalanga. The court handed down the sentences on Wednesday 28 October.Share

Frankum spoke in an interview on CapeTalk on Wednesday. She said the certificate recognises what learners have done up to that point. She said the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) wants vocational education and training to expand in South Africa.

Frankum said most OECD countries have a much greater share of young people in vocational education and training than South Africa does. She said more vocational places would need more funding, better facilities, more teachers and partnerships with employers.

The General Education Certificate began as a pilot programme in 2021. A complete rollout is expected in 2027.Share

Ahead of the budget, Healey said it would move "money and power out of Westminster and into every postcode around Britain". Reports said he planned to close a 4.7-billion-pound funding gap in the defence plan inherited from the previous Labour leader.

Healey also planned a crackdown on foreign online sellers who avoid VAT. Reports said this could raise as much as 1 billion pounds to help fund business rate cuts for high street shops. Extra funding of 1 billion pounds was also expected for social and affordable housing in England, within 39 billion pounds planned over the next decade.

Helen Miller of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said Healey faces a forecast in which borrowing is still expected to fall and the fiscal rules are still being met.

Burnham is expected to seek closer ties with the EU next month and to publish a 10-year strategy document in December. Other hard issues ahead include immigration, welfare reform and North Sea oil drilling.Share

Defence counsel Mlotshwa asked for the witness, Cartrack fleet administrator Carel Rothmann, to stand down. He said the defence needed more time with its experts. The judge, Nomfundo Sipunzi, said she would not force cross-examination if the defence was not ready.

Rothmann testified about two cars that the prosecution alleges were used in the double murder. Evidence from Cartrack, a car tracking company, is before the court. The trial resumes on Monday.

Forbes and Motsoane were shot dead outside the former Wish restaurant on Florida Road in Durban in February 2023.Share

Nearly eight in ten tourists came from elsewhere in the SADC region. About 183,000 visitors came from Mozambique and 179,000 from Zimbabwe. Visitors from Lesotho rose by almost 22% compared with a year earlier.

About 162,000 tourists came from outside Africa. Overseas arrivals fell 11% compared with a year earlier.

Of the September tourists, 97.5% came on holiday. About 75% travelled by road. Stats SA said some ports have missing data, so the figures may undercount arrivals.Share

Sifolo agreed that the listed documents can be led in public without being placed on display. He has not released other documents for open hearings. Those documents can be used to question witnesses in in-camera hearings.

The step follows a direction from the Commission to its evidence leaders. They had to check which documents Sifolo would testify on could be used in public. Some media houses had opposed a blanket in-camera hearing, and the Commission acted after that.Share

Two members of the Federal Open Market Committee, Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack, voted against the pause. They wanted a 25 basis-point increase. Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said the midterms and politics "played no role in the decision".

Reports said a surge in fuel prices linked to the Iran war is a major driver of inflation. Todd Bitter of NEXA Lending said uncertainty around the Iran war and the midterms guided the decision. Morgan Stanley economists said the Fed might not be done tightening, and that future hikes will depend on incoming data.

CME Group's FedWatch tool showed 77.9% of traders pricing in a 25-basis-point hike in December. Warsh also announced the Fed will cut the number of meetings at which it votes on rates from eight to seven next year. It will cut the number by two in 2028.Share

The federation says the male suicide rate is roughly 4 to 5 times higher than the rate for women. Mazindo says many men die undiagnosed. He blames deeply entrenched social conditioning that penalises male vulnerability.

Mazindo said: "We have built a narrative that men do not talk; in actual fact, men do talk when they feel safe". He says men speak when what they share will not be used against them.

Mazindo also said that mental health struggles never excuse harmful or abusive actions.Share

Arab parties are projected to win 19 seats, which is an unprecedented figure. The projections could still change as counting continues. The vote was Israel's first election since the attack of 7 October 2023.

Markets reacted. The shekel weakened about 1.6 percent to 3.10 to the dollar, and Tel Aviv's key indexes fell by more than 3 percent.

Guy Lurie of the Israel Democracy Institute said a caretaker government has the same formal powers as a regular one but a duty of restraint. That includes powers over the war with Iran. Israeli security experts say the result could let Netanyahu launch a new bombing campaign against Iran with the US.

Netanyahu has spoken of a "singular historical opportunity" for joint action with US President Donald Trump. Eisenkot warned that Netanyahu might use security for political ends. Netanyahu's office has rejected earlier accusations that he uses the Iran conflict for political gain.Share

The assets include properties in Centurion and Pretoria, estate properties, bank accounts and investments. The vehicles include Ferraris, a Porsche and BMWs, according to one report.

Four people face charges of extortion and money laundering. They include Oupa Sindane, who is known as Bafana. The case is to resume in April next year.

The allegations say the group demanded payments from a businessman linked to a road project. Sibanyoni says one payment was a local content fee. NPA spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said the order helps to deprive people of the proceeds and benefits of crime.Share

Justice Nambitha Dambuza wrote the judgment, which the court handed down on Tuesday. It upheld a 2022 finding by Johannesburg High Court judge Fiona Dippenaar that the guidelines were impermissible. The adoptions of two babies, called B and L, were finalised in May 2023 and August 2023.

Dambuza said the government parties kept arguing that the adoption proceedings must start afresh because the application documents did not comply. She said their lack of insight and persistence in seeking to have the children removed from their families was gravely unsettling.

The judge said there was "no conceivable reason why they should be wrenched from their families". The High Court had referred the social workers' conduct to the South African Council for Social Service Professions. Dambuza said it was necessary to draw that conduct to the attention of the professional body.Share

Government is reportedly studying other ways to fund the RAF. The options include a charge on vehicle registration or licence renewal, and a levy on foreign-registered vehicles that enter South Africa. Duvenage called the plan to look beyond the fuel levy a knee-jerk reaction that does not address the fund's real problems.

Duvenage said the RAF has been grossly mismanaged. He said repeated fuel levy increases let government avoid dealing with the problem. He described the R2,500 figure as an illustration, not a confirmed amount.

He also said an annual fee would be less fair than the fuel levy, because every motorist would pay the same. In his words: "If you drive 150 kilometres a month and somebody drives 10,000 kilometres a month, you're both going to pay the same".

Duvenage said higher costs could push some motorists to avoid the fee, which would make enforcement harder. He said electric vehicles are not yet a major threat to funding, because they are less than 0.5% of the national fleet. He called that a longer-term challenge.Share

Alphabet reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.67, against $3.02 expected. Revenue was $127.58 billion, against $128.22 billion expected. Reports said weak search advertising and Google services revenue hurt the result.

Capital spending in the quarter was $51.36 billion. Alphabet kept its 2026 forecast of $195 billion to $205 billion and said it expects a significant increase in 2027. Alphabet shares fell 10.5% in premarket trading on Thursday.

Microsoft shares rose 3.5% in premarket trading after its cloud business grew faster. Azure grew 48%, and overall revenue rose 19% to $92.28 billion. Deutsche Bank analysts said Microsoft's returns did not lift the gloomy mood in tech.

Fortinet fell 25.4% and ServiceNow fell 19% after their results. Jeremy Saltzberg of Check Capital Management said: "Investors are starting to scrutinize monetization timelines versus the capital expenditure burn rates."Share

Reports put the number of staff in the data at more than 41,000, with one account saying nearly 42,000. The data includes more than 21,000 Border Patrol personnel and nearly 6,600 ICE agents. It lists names, work addresses, phone numbers and job duties.

DDoSecrets said the Department of Peace and the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew supplied the information. Emma Best, a co-founder of DDoSecrets, said the data identifies officials who oversee covert and undercover operations and key deportation-program staff. Best said the aim is to "replace anonymity with accountability".

A Homeland Security spokesperson said the department is aware of a potential breach. The spokesperson said it is working to address the situation. Maia arson crimew built an online search tool for the data, called Icepick.Share

Soldiers from the South African National Defence Force are deployed at the Delft Palms taxi rank. Two men were shot dead there last Thursday. On Wednesday, two people were wounded in another shooting.

Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner Sizakhele Dyantyi said those stirring the violence will be dealt with harshly. Police said those responsible for the killings will face the full force of the law.

Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku said affected taxi ranks and routes could face further closures if the bloodshed continues. The violence involves a dispute between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association and the Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association. Areas affected include Delft, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Epping and Bonteheuwel.Share

Total revenue of $92.3 billion beat the $90.75 billion that analysts expected. Operating income was $45.9 billion, up 21%. Net income rose 32%. Azure growth also beat the 44% to 45% range that Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood forecast in July.

Capital spending was $45.2 billion, below Microsoft's forecast of more than $50 billion. Microsoft said some third-party data centre capacity arrived late. Microsoft shares rose nearly 4% in after-hours trading.

Microsoft also replaced its three business segments with two. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion, up 30%. Xbox revenue fell 2% to $5.4 billion.

Hood said in the results release: "Results exceeded expectations across revenue, operating income, and earnings per share."Share