Suliman Carrim told the Madlanga Commission through his lawyers for 6 months that he was too ill to testify. On 15 October 2026 he was arrested at OR Tambo moments before an international flight. What the police confirmed, why the commission wanted him, and why the charge he faces is the smallest of his problems.
Fikile Mbalula wants the ANC to review the DA’s place in the Government of National Unity. Without the DA, the GNU holds exactly 200 of the 400 seats. This is what Mbalula said on camera, what the ANC’s own written version left out, and what the DA can and cannot force if it walks out.
Communications Minister Solly Malatsi wants a new SABC funding model by 31 March 2027. Every public option described so far, from a household levy to a grant out of tax, draws on your money, and the collectors being considered include SARS, municipalities and banks. This is what is on the table, and how you would pay under each option.
Serah-Lee Venter, a 27-year-old mother of 2, was last seen in Theresapark, Pretoria North, on Tuesday 29 September 2026. Her picture only reached the public on 11 October. This is what is on record, what the police number on her poster shows, which stories online are backed by anything, and how you can help.
An update on the Little Britain Pub shooting in Waterkloof, Pretoria. The accused has appeared in court, the state has given its version of what happened at the door, and his bail application is set down for 20 October. It is also my view on where information comes from, and why the public only gets the version of whoever is willing to talk.
The Employment Services Amendment Bill takes refugees and asylum seekers out of the definition of a foreign national, and the bill’s own memorandum says they get the same employment status as citizens. The department calls the claims a myth. Here are the questions people are asking, answered from the bill itself, and how to make a submission before 6 November 2026.
About 1 million South Africans pay most of the personal income tax, and the numbers come from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s own replies to Parliament. Here is what he told Parliament, what economist Dawie Roodt says a R1 million family gets back for every rand, whether the state could pay its bills without these taxpayers, and what the answer was when an MP asked for a target to ease the burden.
On Saturday 10 October 2026, a single shot at the Little Britain Pub in Waterkloof, Pretoria, killed a member of the MAC’S Motorcycle Club and wounded another. The man police arrested is linked to the Crusaders. Within a day the shooting was being told as the start of a biker war. Here is what the police confirmed, what the two clubs’ leaders have been fighting about, and what the pub’s ban on club patches means for riders who had nothing to do with it.
On 9 October 2026, the Department of Home Affairs withdrew its asylum directive. The Home Affairs directive, issued by the Director-General’s office on 28 September, told refugee offices to accept asylum applications from anyone who asks, including people who entered South Africa illegally. Within days, thousands queued outside refugee offices, March and March blocked the Durban refugee centre, and on 8 October cars burned in Soweto and Durban. The department says no minister or other political office-bearer knew about the directive, and that nobody could have foreseen its consequences. On 5 October, its own spokesperson said on 702 that the numbers were going to overwhelm the department.
A video claiming South Africans should pay around R10 a litre for petrol is circulating again after 95 petrol rose to R30.25 a litre in Gauteng on 7 October 2026. The R10 in that video is the 2021 cost of the fuel at the harbour, not a pump price, and today that part alone costs R17.44. Tax and levies add R7.46 a litre, and that is the part of the price the ANC-led government decides. On the same day the price went up, the ANC’s own MPs asked an ANC finance minister to cut those levies.
