Episode Details

The ConCourt-driven upheaval in the IEC's election logistics dominated bulletins on almost every station, less than three weeks before the 4 November local polls. Sport desks balanced grief and celebration as South African rugby mourned Lions lock Hyron Andrews while the Bulls and Stormers opened their Champions Cup campaigns with big wins. Police leadership and Gauteng's drug labs filled the remaining crime coverage, and a sweltering Saturday kept presenters on several stations talking about the heat.