Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 01 March 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the outgoing CEO of FirstRand, Alan Pullinger, warns that South Africa is running out of money and unconventional financing methods are being used which could endanger economic stability and growth prospects.

# And Mail & Guardian on Fridays:

Writes the EFF leader, Julius Malema must decide whether Floyd Shivambu is the right person to lead the party’s election campaign in KwaZulu-Natal.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports two surgeons from Johannesburg who regularly visit New Castle in KwaZulu-Natal to treat patients, are to close their practices in the town. One of them, doctor Jameel Desai, was ambushed and kidnapped by a blue light gang on the N3. There were five similar incidents on the highway last week.

And secondly, the paper writes former Bok Johan Goosen must pay 1.8-million-rand to his former friend Armandt Stoman after the latter’s leg was crushed in a shooting accident.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes the decisions of white judges are currently in the spotlight,

reports secondly, there are calls for the salaries of university rectors to be cut,

and finally, the paper writes about the fate of the victims of the Marikana massacre 12 years later.

# Sowetan:

Reports on how the killing of a taxi boss months before the AKA murders led to the police catching the suspects. The police found the car in which they fled with ammunition and muti.

# And The Citizen:

Leads with: “WHAT IS PRAVIN REALLY HIDING?” The paper writes there are numerous questions about his secrecy about the Takatso/SAA deal.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports a damning report on Bloemfontein’s controversial Hauweng Bus Project indicates, according to the Mangaung mayor, Gregory Nthatisi, that large-scale fraud has been committed.

And secondly, the paper also writes about the former Bok Johan Goosen who paid 1.8-million-rand.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Leads with the search for the missing seven-year-old Joslin Smith from Saldanha, which has now been further expanded with the special investigation unit of the Cape Town Metro also deployed. The reward for information leading to her detection has been increased to 250-thousand-rand.

And secondly, there is news about a baboon who caught a 40-kilometre lift to Elsies River under the bonnet of a car and was rescued by the SPCA.

# And Cape Times:

Writes organisations representing black lawyers have sued the minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, Ebrahim Patel, to publish the Legal Sector Code to speed up transformation in the sector.

And also reports on the Metropolitan Police’s special investigation unit deployed to search for Joslin.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the CEO of Outworx, Robin Hoekstra says there is global interest in call centre services that can be established in the Eastern Cape. He invested 12.5-million-rand in a branch in Gqeberha where 500 jobs will be created.

And secondly, the paper writes DA MPC Bobby Stevenson will retire from politics after four decades.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Has the same report as The Star and Pretoria News about the rulings of white judges which are said to be inconsistent with the Constitution.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Does not have an electronic version available today.