Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 03 August 2026:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports on the new fuel prices to be announced this week. The paper writes the diesel price is expected to increase with a small decrease in the petrol price. The manufacturing sector may shrink further due to the higher diesel costs.

# And the Netwerk24 website:

Reports opposition parties in the Gauteng Legislature are furious about a visit by the council’s speaker, Morakane Mosupyoe, and four senior executives to a tourism conference in Venezuela that never materialised. The visit cost the taxpayer about 5.9-million-rand.

And secondly, the website writes only 62 of the 425 syndicate leaders that the police have arrested over the past 30 months have been convicted. This is less than 15-percent. The information was released by the acting minister of Police, Firoz Cachalia.

GAUTENG:

# The Star:

Writes detectives from Cape Town’s Serious Violent Crime Unit are investigating after four men were shot dead in Nyanga on Saturday night while trying to change a flat tyre. Police say the motive for the attack may be taxi-related.

# Sowetan:

Reports about a WhatsApp scam with hackers taking control of people’s profiles and then defrauding the people on their contact lists. Criminals are using the swapping of SIM cards and fake verification requests to gain access.

# And The Citizen:

Writes the DA and AfriForum’s legal action in the Western Cape High Court against the Expropriation Act could jeopardise the government of national unity.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Reports about an alleged racial incident between Fairmont High School and Settlers High School during a rugby match. In a video circulating on social media, the referee ends the match early after a racist insult is allegedly used. The paper writes the Western Cape Education Department is investigating.

Secondly, the paper writes about five members of the Matthys family from Keimoes who died in an accident on the R-27 between Calvinia and Brandvlei in the Northern Cape.

And finally, it is reported that the search for 17-year-old Sarah Rose Starrett from George continues. She may have run away with her biological mother and is currently in KwaZulu-Natal.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports there are serious concerns that Nelson Mandela Bay’s groundwater resources are being contaminated by the outflow of sewage from the wastewater treatment plant.

And secondly, the paper writes teachers in the Eastern Cape are allegedly being rejected for appointments because their qualifications are not recognised.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:

Writes the Comrades Marathon Association has decided to host next year’s centenary marathon without the support of Athletics South Africa after the two parties could not reach an agreement.

And secondly, it reports Banyana Banyana’s WAFCON hopes are hanging by a thread.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports despite Anna Jan of Epikuro Post 3’s ripe old age of 90, she still looks after her ailing 66-year-old daughter Katrina every day. Both survive on a meagre pension.

And secondly, the paper writes Meatco has survived one of the most difficult years in Namibia’s livestock industry and remained profitable. The number of cattle delivered to the market fell from 75-thousand-268 in the previous financial year to 35-thousand-594, while income decreased by more than 757-million-rand.