LMLwazi Matshaya
Lwazi covers South African news, crime and the big stories from Joburg to the Eastern Cape.
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Cape Town's airport handled a record 11.1 million passengers in 2025, and foreign tourists spent almost R26 billion in the Western Cape. The city keeps winning "best city in the world" awards. In our daily column, we argue that a Cape running its own affairs could market itself, set friendlier visa rules and keep more of what its visitors spend.
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In 1902 hundreds of Boers left South Africa for Patagonia rather than live under British rule. More than a century later, a few dozen elderly people still speak the Afrikaans they carried with them, and it sounds like nobody else's.
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On 28 September Home Affairs told every refugee reception office to accept asylum seekers who came in without papers. Eleven days later it took the order back, saying offices were overwhelmed and staff were at risk. But the Constitutional Court ruling behind it has not gone anywhere.
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On Thursday 8 October, police say 24 vehicles were set alight in Soweto and Durban and foreign-owned shops were looted. On Friday, Home Affairs pulled its asylum directive. Within hours, marchers were walking through Durban's city centre saying that was not enough. They want the Constitutional Court to reverse itself.
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Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old judge from Durban, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. South Africa is celebrating. Israel is not. She led the UN inquiry that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza, and Israel's diplomats called the prize disgraceful and grotesque. Then she made a joke about Trump.
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On the day petrol hit a record R30.25, an ANC study group put out a statement of "deep concern" and asked Treasury to cut fuel taxes. Treasury is run by an ANC minister. We read the full statement: What it actually asks for, who really sets your petrol price, and the date the ANC will have to answer itself.
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