Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 26 February 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the Gauteng Health Department has assured staff that it is not scrapping overtime payments for doctors entirely, but is simply reviewing its policy to ensure it remains within its budget. This follows after the department announced that all overtime payments will now have to be signed off by head office.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports the minister of Police, Bheki Cele are being criticised from many quarters because he allegedly misused the police helicopter during the launch of the ANC’s election manifesto in Durban. However, the police say Cele performed his official duty.

Then the paper writes that more than two-thousand-600 motorcycles drove in formation to Jeffreys Bay to break a world record.

And finally, it is reported that the 40th birthday of the murdered anaesthetist from Mbombela, Nicholaas Procter was celebrated quietly.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Also writes about Cele and the police helicopter.

And reports a huge crisis is looming in terms of layoffs and unemployment in the mining industry.

# Sowetan:

Reports the father of a 15-year-old girl who was falsely arrested by the police in Hillbrow suspecting her being an illegal immigrant, wants the police to answer to the Human Rights Commission.

# And The Citizen:

Writes president Cyril Ramaphosa this weekend launched an election manifesto which is a mirror image of that of the late president Nelson Mandela 30 years ago. Experts ask whether the voters will still believe the ANC’s promises.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Firstly, reports two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of the former CEO of Centlec, Andries Mgoqi.

Then the paper writes about two patients from Pofadder in the Northern Cape who tried to steal the local hospital’s ambulance.

And finally, the paper has an impressive photo of rain falling over a barren Northern Cape on its front page.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Also reports on Cele and the helicopter and the theft of Pofadder’s ambulance.

Then the paper writes even the Navy is now deployed to search for the six-year-old Joslin Smith who went missing in Saldanha last week. Divers are said to be searching for her body in the sea off Diazville.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the DA’s own cadre deployment is now in the spotlight.

And reports a reward of 100-thousand-rand has been issued for information that will lead to finding Joslin.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports patients at the Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha have to get used to an unbearable stench, corridors full of medical waste, dirty linen as well as litter and cigarette butts scattered everywhere.

And secondly, the paper writes about the world’s largest floating book fair, which has docked in Nelson Mandela Bay for the first time in eight years.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Also writes about the launch of the ANC’s election manifesto. According to analysts, the manifesto is just full of old promises that have been presented again.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

There is no edition today as it is a public holiday in Namibia in honour of the late president Hage Geingob who was laid to rest yesterday.