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🇿🇦 The court case is looking bad for the ANC so far:

The Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) affidavit paints a bleak picture of the ANC’s candidate submission process.

The ANC withdrew its official list 1 hour and 16 minutes before the deadline.

It then attempted to submit a new, amended list, riddled with errors, just 2 minutes before the deadline.

The facts are making it increasingly clear that the ANC’s own negligence led to the rejection of nearly 200 of its candidates.

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🇿🇦 ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula is under increasing pressure after the party failed to register all its candidates before the IEC’s 28 August deadline.

The ANC says a technical glitch prevented some candidates from being captured on the IEC’s system.

The IEC, however, denies that its system experienced any technical problems.

Senior ANC leaders are now demanding answers over the missing candidates.

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🇿🇦🇲🇿 Two Mozambicans have been arrested by the Hawks’ South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau after a secret mandrax laboratory was discovered in Erasmia, Pretoria.

Police claim the laboratory is worth more than R100 million and could produce up to 800,000 mandrax tablets a day.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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🇿🇦 The Waterfront rainbow crossing in Cape Town was painted over in pink this weekend after Christian activists painted the name of Jesus over the gay-flag crossing.

DA councillor Ian McMahon said the city has since painted the crossing pink because the special coloured paint needed to restore the full rainbow design will reportedly only be available in about three months.

After it was painted pink, someone reportedly went back and painted a reference to Romans 1:24–27 over it. In this passage, sexual immorality and specifically homosexual acts are described as the result of a society rejecting God’s authority.

According to the latest census data, Cape Town is 86% Christian.

According to Dr Adi Schlebusch, head of research at Petzer, this is yet another example in a long series of cases where the DA leadership continues to alienate its largely Christian voter base:

“The DA would probably have more success among voters if the party positioned itself more like the moderate Christian Democrats in Europe, but unfortunately it is increasingly displaying the characteristics of a militant woke movement.”

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🇿🇦 A plane crash has been reported near New Road and Old Pretoria Main Road (R101) in the Glen Austin area of Midrand.

Emergency services and law enforcement are on scene.

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🇿🇦 After it was revealed that the DA in Cape Town has draft legislation that would, among other things, require citizens to obtain paid permits for their pets, DA councillor JP Smith launched a tirade on Facebook, fiercely denying the legislation.

Cape Town councillor Mzwakhe Nqavashe, chairperson of the Safety and Security Portfolio Committee — the same committee on which Smith serves — however, gave a completely contradictory explanation of the proposed pet registration.

He confirmed that residents with pets older than six months must register their animals, and that this is not optional or merely encouraged.
“It is a requirement, as has already been pointed out several times, and pet owners must register their animals,” Nqavashe said.

“It is already a requirement in the previous Animal Keeping By-Law of 2021, so it is nothing new.”

“You register your pet online on the City’s website, the permit is generated, and although the by-law makes provision for a fee, no fee is being charged.”

Nqavashe emphasised that where provision is made for a fee, it can be legally introduced. So although it is free now, there could be a fee in the future.

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🇿🇦 Two farm attacks were reported in the Cape Winelands over the weekend.

In Stellenbosch, three armed suspects allegedly tied up a couple, aged 60 and 56, and stole jewellery, phones and laptops.

In Klapmuts, a suspect allegedly entered a farm property and fired shots toward a woman after she spotted him. No injuries were reported.

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🇿🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪 Germany and France are borrowing South Africa €300 million, about R5.6 billion, to help fix water, electricity and waste services in eight major metros.

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🇿🇦 A suspected kidnapping was caught on CCTV near Klopperpark Bottle Store in Germiston

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🌎 The UN voted 164–1 to replace the Mercator world map with the “Equal Earth” projection.

This means Africa and other large landmasses will be shown more accurately according to their real size, while places like Greenland, Russia and Canada will no longer appear exaggerated.

The dark blue shows the real size of the countries in the world

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🇿🇦🇯🇵 Japan’s ambassador to South Africa, Fumio Shimizu, has already tried several South African dishes.

Now he is making a true local favourite: peppermint crisp tart.

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🇿🇦 A shooting and bombing has taken place on the N4, about 5km outside Mooinooi in the direction of Brits, North West.

The area is an active crime scene.

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🇿🇦 South Africa recorded 4,638 kidnappings between April and June 2026, up by 172 cases from the same period last year.

Gauteng: 2,367
KwaZulu-Natal: 887
Western Cape: 269

Police statistics also recorded 519 extortion cases.

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🇿🇦 South Africa’s murder rate is 36 per 100,000 people.

That is higher than Colombia at 25 and Mexico at 17.

In Khayelitsha, the rate is reportedly 119 per 100,000 — a level comparable to war-zone conditions.

Cape Town is around 69 per 100,000, while violence linked to organised crime remains extremely high.

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🇺🇸🇿🇦 The US Mission to the UN has condemned the UN’s upcoming “Durban 25” anti- Racism commemoration, calling the original 2001 Durban racism conference a failure that fuelled antisemitism, anti-Western sentiment and anti-American rhetoric.

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White South Africans admitted to the U.S. as refugees could receive up to $4,500 per person in initial federal resettlement aid from October 1. 🇺🇸🇿🇦

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