The Midday Report team get the latest from the family of Katlego Bereng, whose body was burned in cell 35 at the Mangaung Correctional Centre - where convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped from.  Veronica Mokhoali, Eyewitness News Reporter filled a report from  Bloemfontein

 

The ANC NEC wraps up today after a weekend long meeting. The party is remembering OR Tambo in a wreath laying ceremony in Watteville , Ekurhuleni deliberating on a number of issues, chief amongst them have been solutions to the country’s electricity crisis. Ndaedzo Nethonzhe is the Eyewitness News  Reporter on this story.

 

Alleged child sex abuse ring kingpin Gerhard Ackerman has been found guilty of 738 charges in the Gauteng High Court today. Kgomotso Modise, Eyewitness News Reporter  and Luke Lamprecht, Child Protection Specialist, Women and Men Against Child Abuse speak to the host of the show.

To KwaZulu Natal now where Thabiso Zulu, Sindiso Magaqa’s friend and whistle-blower brings us up to speed with the developments on the trial against the men charged with the murder of Sindiso Magaqa. Magaqa was shot dead in uMzimkhulu in 2017.  

 

Then Nhlanhla Mabaso, Eyewitness News Reporter has the latest on the suspects who  appeared in court for the shooting of 10 family members in KZN.

 

To wrap up the show, we unpack ActionSA’s disappointment that DA will not enter into coalition with Patriotic Alliance to remove Johannesburg Mayor Thapelo Amad. Michael Beaumont, National Chairperson of Action SA spoke to the team.

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