eNCA News Bite | Migrant legality, crime stats and Kipchoge in Cape Town | 22 May 2026
It’s Friday, 22 May, and this is News Bite (https://www.enca.com/news-bite-podcast) with Marcelle Gordon.
The vast majority of refugees processed at a Durban shelter are in the country legally, (https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/camping-durban-foreign-nationals-ordered-prove-legal-status) 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 (https://www.enca.com/opinion-videos/concerns-raised-over-rise-vigilantism-amid-anti-immigration-protests) 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. (https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories-videos/modest-drop-expected-latest-crime-statistics) Political parties face a deadline to submit names for a committee considering possible impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa, (https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/mps-meet-discuss-concourt-judgment-implications-parliament-rules) while Kgalema Motlanthe weighs in on the ANC’s decline. (https://www.enca.com/top-stories/motlanthe-concerned-about-anc-decline) The SAHRC has concluded hearings into Gauteng’s water crisis, (https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories-videos/sahrc-hearings-water-tankers-both-blessing-and-curse-gauteng-crisis) relatives of Ebola victims stormed a hospital (https://www.enca.com/lifestyle/deadly-dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads-m23-held-south-kivu-0) in the DRC, Roelf Meyer presents his credentials to President Donald Trump, (https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/roelf-meyer-presents-credentials-donald-trump) and Airbnb is expanding beyond home rentals. (https://www.enca.com/business/airbnb-expands-hotels-cars-groceries)
SPORT
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, (https://www.enca.com/sport/four-chiefs-players-headline-bafanas-preliminary-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. (https://www.enca.com/sport-top-stories/eliud-kipchoge-arrives-cape-town-marathon)
That’s your News Bite (https://www.enca.com/news-bite-podcast) for 22 May.
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