SABCNews AM Headlines @05H30 | 17 June 2026

*Expectations are high at the 19th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth Africa Region in Kempton Park as legislators seek to forge a united voice on critical issues confronting the continent, including migration.

*The Madlanga Commission - tasked with probing allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system - will resume its hearings today with a new witness expected on the stand.
The probe has recently had its lens firmly planted on the July 2021 Aeroton drug bust which was described as a comedy of errors.


*Alleged underworld kingpin Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala and his three co-accused are expected back in the High Court in Johannesburg today.
Matlala is accused of orchestrating the failed assassinations of his former girlfriend, Tebogo Thobejane, businessman Joe Sibanyoni, and music producer Seunkie Mokubung, popularly known as DJ Vettys.

*In Bunia, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri Province and the epicenter of a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak, social media influencers are taking to their phones to help health authorities fight the disease with digital awareness campaigns


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