Episode Details

Water dominated the day on air. The Bronkhorstspruit contamination crisis led bulletins on every news station, while dry taps across Johannesburg and Pretoria fed angry listener calls nine days before the 4 November local elections. Eugene de Kock's testimony at the TRC cases inquiry and Lula da Silva's comeback win in Brazil also ran across multiple stations, alongside steady coverage of the SANDF deployment in KwaZulu-Natal and taxi violence in Cape Town.