It’s Friday, 22 May, and this is News Bite with Marcelle Gordon.
The vast majority of refugees processed at a Durban shelter are in the country legally, after Home Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal processed 457 migrants and found only two to be undocumented. Anti-migrant protests have now reached Kwatsaduza on the East Rand, while police warn against vigilantism and misinformation around a false 30 June deadline for foreign nationals to leave South Africa.
Also today, two bodies were retrieved from a milk cooling tank on an Eastern Cape dairy farm, as police prepare to release the latest national crime statistics. Political parties face a deadline to submit names for a committee considering possible impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa, while Kgalema Motlanthe weighs in on the ANC’s decline. The SAHRC has concluded hearings into Gauteng’s water crisis, relatives of Ebola victims stormed a hospital in the DRC, Roelf Meyer presents his credentials to President Donald Trump, and Airbnb is expanding beyond home rentals.
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Mamelodi Sundowns are one match away from becoming two-time CAF Champions League winners, Hugo Broos names Bafana Bafana’s preliminary 2026 FIFA World Cup squad, and Eliud Kipchoge arrives for the
Cape Town Marathon as the city pushes to become an Abbott World Marathon Major.
And finally, Cape Town has welcomed marathon royalty. If long-distance running had a crown, Eliud Kipchoge just carried it through arrivals.
That’s your News Bite for 22 May.
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