Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 09 February 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports president Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his State of the Nation address last night that the government will establish a climate response fund to address economic and social damage associated with harmful weather events.

# And Mail & Guardian on Fridays:

Writes Ramaphosa has stagnated and there is little evidence that any member of the ANC supports his changes. There is also no hope that the plight of ordinary citizens will change.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Also leads with the SONA and the overview of the past 30 years that Ramaphosa included in his speech. Several reports cover the entire front page of the paper and experts believe that his speech did not reflect the true state of affairs in the country.

# Sowetan:

Reports Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation address was an election speech that largely ignored the problems facing the country.

# And The Citizen:

Writes the president’s announcement about the end of load-shedding was met with mixed reactions.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Leads with the names of the six victims of the Riebeeckstad Hoërskool bus accident. The paper reports the police are investigating a case of culpable homicide.

And secondly, there is news about the murder of a 71-year-old farmer from Keimoes in the Northern Cape, Hugo van Sittert. He was allegedly killed during a wage dispute with a worker.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Also leads with the president’s speech and devotes its entire front page to the SONA. The paper reports that there were six-thousand-769 words in the speech, but no sign of a statesman.

# And Cape Times:

Writes Ramaphosa’s promises about ending load-shedding were barely cold when it was increased to phase 3 until further notice.

And secondly, it is reported the EFF will take the Phala Phala issue to the Constitutional Court.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the occurrence of learners allegedly being possessed by spirits and disrupting school proceedings has become a common phenomenon and teachers do not know how to deal with it.

And secondly, the paper writes two boys drowned in the Missionvale salt pan.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Leads with the headline: “RAMAPHOSA: PROMISES, PROMISES.” The paper writes the State of the Nation speech was nothing but just another pile of promises.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports two men who stood trial on charges of poaching and apparently hired a car for their raid, have been released.

And writes about a family of 18 who live next to a road after being evicted from a resettlement farm.