SABCNews AM Headlines @05H30 | 29 September 2026

* Suspended Deputy National Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya is due back in the Randburg Magistrates Court in Johannesburg for a formal bail application. He faces charges of rape and sexual assault for allegedly raping an 18-year-old woman and sexually grooming a 16-year-old girl. He is remanded at Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria.

* The Johannesburg High Court will urgently hear the matter between ANC Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula and ANC NEC member, Andile Lungisa today. Lungisa is contending that Mbalula violated his rights by giving instructions to party officials that his name be removed from the candidate list for the ANC in the Nelson Mandela Metro.

* Alleged underworld kingpin and businessman Cat Matlala is due in the Pretoria Regional Court where he will be joined by 13 other co-accused. The case relates to the 228-million SAPS Medicare tender fraud and corruption case. This after Matlala rejected the plea and sentence agreement he entered into with the State.

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he objected to South Africa's exclusion from the G20 under the US presidency. He was asked on the UNGA sidelines whether the US invitation to President Vladimir Putin for the Miami summit signals warmer Moscow-Washington ties.

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