Week in Review - 17 October 2026

Foot-and-mouth disease dominates the week, with meat prices rising, beef exports in doubt and, separately, a hand, foot and mouth outbreak at a Karasburg school. A BIG break with an arrest in the Okahandja child murders, Namdeb’s call for state help, a Nobel Peace Prize for South Africa’s Navi Pillay, Rwanda’s Formula One deal and Ukraine’s renewed refinery strikes.