The headlines of the leading newspapers on 10 July 2026:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the 4.3-percent decline in the manufacturing sector indicates weak GDP growth, which complicates a decision on the repo rate. The sector’s annual decline highlights its continued struggle due to oil price shocks.
# Mail & Guardian:
Writes former DA leader John Steenhuisen will not appear before a DA disciplinary committee.
And reports the sheriff has seized assets of Judge Dikgang Moseneke’s family firm.
# Die Papier:
Reports the new minister of Social Development, Dina Pule, has not declared all her interests to Parliament. She is a founding member and director of Xiximani va Manana, a cooperative enterprise that is still in business.
Then the paper writes, following former president Jacob Zuma’s controversial visit to India, about the relationship between Zuma and South Africa’s high commissioner to India, professor Anil Sooklal. It appears that the families have been in contact for a long time.
And finally, there is news about Afrikaners for South Africa’s planned visit to the American ambassador, Leo Brent Bozell the third.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports the secretary-general of the ANC, Fikile Mbalula, says he refuses to retract his allegations against the EFF about immigrants, because they are neither defamatory nor untrue. Mbalula said the EFF visited restaurants a few years ago and advised the owners to hire foreigners.
And secondly, the website writes BMW has recalled more than 10-thousand vehicles due to ignition problems.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Writes the portfolio committee on Home Affairs said after a review visit to the Beitbridge border post that there is a serious limitation in resources. There are only 40 body cameras available for approximately 600 border guards and only four drones are deployed nationwide.
# Sowetan:
Reports how the suspended deputy commissioner of the Ekurhuleni metro police, Julius Mkhwanazi, and his colleagues “milked” the metro. They even reportedly increased their own salaries.
# And The Citizen:
Writes the blow to the economy with the hundreds of legal migrants who fled the country has not yet been determined.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports about a pastor from Vredehoek in Cape Town who was attacked by three robbers while jogging on Table Mountain. He says he will never jog alone again.
And secondly, the paper writes the government has denied that it is neglecting South African properties abroad.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports one of the robbers who attacked and robbed a church in KwaZakhele even played the church’s keyboard during the robbery.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes a family in Taylors Halt says they received threats days before a father-of-two and his girlfriend died in a house fire. A woman has since been arrested.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the minister of Health and Social Services, Esperance Luvindao, says a forensic investigation into the Namibia Institute of Pathology’s controversial 5.3-million-rand vehicle scheme for CEOs is underway.
And secondly, the paper writes more than 200 learners became pregnant in the first term in Kavango East.