SABCNews PM Headlines @21H00 | 27 May 2026

* President Cyril Ramaphosa has given Bafana Bafana a rousing send-off ahead of their departure to this year's FIFA World Cup finals in the Americas. The President delivered his farewell speech during a Gala Dinner for the team at the Presidential Guest House in the Union Building, Pretoria

* Joburg Finance MMC Loyiso Masuku has tabled the city's R97 billion budget, committing significant funds to rebuild the metro's crumbling, critical infrastructure and support the stabilization of municipal finances.

* Deputy President Paul Mashatile has led a delegation comprising deputy ministers, police and SANDF on a visit to Mitchell's Plain and Gugulethu on the Cape Flats to assess progress made with Operation Prosper.

* Community members in Addo in the Eastern Cape today marched to demand the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Protesters accuse local farmers of hiring them as cheap labour, squeezing South Africans out of agricultural jobs and fueling high unemployment.

* The Marion Island overwintering team has returned to Cape Town aboard the SA Agulhas II. The urgent extraction was ordered by Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Willie Aucamp due to critical shortages of specialised polar diesel caused by fuel supply disruptions in the Southern Ocean region.

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