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Tick-tock on talks to run SA’s hung metros, and Tatjana Smith’s Dutch courage
Coming up in this midweek edition of News24’s Unread, the clock is ticking now, with exactly 14 days since last Sunday, for politicians to form new governments in the places where they have been elected. Meanwhile, the DA’s Helen Zille seems to have been the focal point of much of…
Coalition country: SA’s new chapter starts
They say, “A week is a long time in politics,” but election week is like running a marathon. News24’s Unread brings you the final word on the 2026 municipal polls. Simply put: it’s a new chapter for our coalition country. An election week of reckoning for the ANC.And a defining era…
It's the final countdown! DA 'blue wave' swallows SA metros
It’s the final countdown. The IEC’s big push for the results. Now for a snapshot of the election counting day that was. Expect fresh shows twice a week. This show has been carefully produced, presented and edited by Raubenheimer, News24 visual director Wynand Louw, and video journalists Luke Daniel, Storm…
DA, Action SA smell ANC blood? IEC tally hits 60%
As they say, “a week is a long time in politics”. Well, election week is like running a marathon. Not only for the parties and the journalists who cover it, but of course, for the Electoral Commission processing the results as they slowly emerge. We cross to the IEC’s national…
ANC, DA, MKP & EFF herald 'historic' elections, and Cape Town's new Parklands ward
Firstly, the IEC’s been chuffed with voter turnout. Meanwhile, from Seshego to Edgemead, and from the president to the official opposition, this is what the leaders of some of the country’s biggest political parties had to say while casting their ballots. And lastly, as the outskirts of Cape Town are…
Battle of the badge: City of Cape Town’s cold war with the police ministry
In this jam-packed edition of News24’s Unread, devoted solely to crime and policing, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is poised for a promotion as head of the Hawks, inheriting a near-50% internal vacancy rate. Meanwhile, Crime Intelligence warns of escalating anti-immigrant attacks in Durban, so the police ministry rushes to the courts and…
State clampdown on 'construction mafia', Carrim gets bail, and a secret Iran navy report
It’s Thursday already, and you have no clue about what’s happened this week? Thankfully, Unread’s here to catch you up in a snappy video bulletin, exclusive to News24. Coming up in the show, the government intensifies its clampdown on the so-called ‘construction mafia’ by blacklisting many more allegedly dodgy contractors, the innercity home…
Pretoria's water problem persists, Carrim wants bail in 2 cases, and US fugitive extradited
Don’t know what happened in the news this week? Unread is here to catch you up. In our top story this Sunday, with about a week and a half to go before the municipal elections, the administration in charge of the country’s capital, Pretoria, is facing a fresh investigation by…
Fuel price relief, Sibiya stays in prison, more budget takeaways, Tshwane's water crisis
In your midweek edition of News24’s Unread, we bring you details on former deputy national police Shadrack Sibiya’s failed bid for bail on charges of rape, human trafficking and sexual grooming. We dig through the mid-term budget speech to give you five essential takeaways, including the government’s promise to slash…
ANC wins election lifeline, inside Ballito's school stabbing, and EC's new national park
In your Sunday edition of News24’s Unread, Fannie Masemola will return to office this Monday morning as the country’s reinstated national police commissioner. In our feature story, the Constitutional Court’s Thursday ruling means the ANC can now compete for your vote in six municipalities, mostly in the Eastern Cape, where…
Sibiya's "dishonourable discharge", CPT sues over N1 crash, and F1 back in Africa
Coming up in your midweek edition of News24’s Unread, Shadrack Sibiya dishonourably discharges himself from the SA Police Service, amid a drawn-out bid for bail on charges of alleged rape, human trafficking and sexual grooming of a minor. Meanwhile, a pair of March and March men have been granted bail…
Home Affairs buckles, Zuma hospital watch, and SA wins another Nobel
Coming up in our longer-than-usual edition of News24’s video bulletin, Unread, Home Affairs’ decision to consider all asylum seekers’ applications following a Constitutional Court ruling sees violence spill onto the streets, but the department buckles under pressure and cancels the directive. Meanwhile, a big question mark looms large over former…
3 mayors in hot water, R30 petrol, and Ramaphosa sells a cow for R6.4 million
From the politically-paralysed Knysna Municipality to Nelson Mandela Bay, three mayors, former and current, have found themselves embroiled in cases, some before the courts, just weeks ahead of the elections. In Knysna, ex-mayor Thando Matika and a pair of senior municipal officials are currently languishing in a jail cell until…
Ramaphosa on GBV, while Sibiya denies rape
In Unread’s midweek top story, it’s a crisis consuming this country that refuses to go away. President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed South Africans on what his national coalition is now doing to try to stem the tide of gender-based violence. Following the murders of 11 women in the Ekurhuleni region…
SAPS crime stats flawed? Knysna's mayorless, and ProNutro retires at 64
In Unread’s top story this Sunday, with nine women murdered in Ekurhuleni in the past two months alone, and suspended deputy national police commissioner, Shadrack Siboiya, in custody for alleged rape, it may be tough to concede that your statistics on gender based violence are not accurate. Yet that’s exactly…
Shadrack Sibiya’s shock arrest for rape, and Rassie’s Bok shake-up for Wallabies
Coming up in this midweek edition of News24’s Unread, as South Africa grapples with the recent surge in femicide, suspended deputy national police commissioner, Shadrack Sibiya, has appeared in court for alleged rape and sexual grooming of a minor. The Madlanga Commission’s Recommendations Task Team (CRTT) cuffed the lieutenant general on Monday,…
Trump’s five demands, nine Ekurhuleni murders, and we remember ‘sandpapergate’
In Unread’s Sunday edition, we hone in on the deepening rift between Pretoria and Washington. Dialogue and negotiation. That’s what South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, is calling for with the US Trump Administration, following a further souring of diplomatic ties this week. US Secretary of State…
8 women killed in Ekurhuleni. Only 1 arrest
In this special midweek edition of News24’s Unread, broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer sifts through this dark puzzle of women murders in Ekurhuleni with deputy politics editor, Bongekile Macupe, and they ask, what will it take to turn SA’s femicide tide? Your news in 30 minutes.In other news, US Secretary of…
ANC takes IEC to Electoral Court, and "jou ma se" Pemmy-gate
In our top story this Sunday, the ANC is heading for a legal showdown with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the Electoral Court over supposed technical IT glitches that saw it failing to log the correct candidates in time for municipalities in three provinces; first the Eastern Cape, the…
'Cat' back in court after dock disorder, and apartheid's 'Dr Shock' dies in Canada
The notorious tender don Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala and his co-accused are expected back in the dock of the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg this Thursday for their attempted murder trial. Confusion, shouting and shoving occurred in the courtroom on Tuesday when police officials, including members of the Political Killings Task…