Episode Details

The Constitutional Court's ruling restoring 181 ANC candidates to the 4 November ballot swept across every news-carrying station. Fikile Mbalula's emotional reaction, and his call to review the DA's place in the GNU, kept the story running into the evening. Shadrack Sibiya's bail hearing and a fresh wave of campaign-trail shootings kept crime and politics intertwined, while bulletins also tracked the prolonged Joburg inner-city power outage and the discovery of 200 people at an illegal rehab centre in Mpumalanga.