Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 28 May 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Pick ‘n Pay chief executive Sean Summers says the retail group will make sweeping changes to its QualiSave brand and open more Boxer stores. This follows the group’s first annual loss in 57 years.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Leads with news on the first day of election 2024. The paper reports the special votes went fairly smoothly. Only 107 of the approximately 23-thousand polling stations nationwide could not open.

There is also an editor’s letter on the front page in which the newspaper encourages its readers to vote against the ANC.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes the news channel eNCA has denied that it discriminates against former president Jacob Zuma in not broadcasting an interview.

And also reports on the smaller problems experienced on the first day of the election.

# Sowetan:

Reports the Electoral Commission says it has done everything in its power to inform the voters to vote where they are registered. The commission says you can’t just wake up and decide to vote at another polling station.

# And The Citizen:

Leads with: “POLLS: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW”. The paper publishes a complete guide for voters.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports on the progress of the first day of special votes in the Free State and Northern Cape. The paper writes although everything did not go flawlessly, there were no major problems.

And secondly, the paper writes 69-year-old Johannes Christoffel Greyling from Ladybrand was arrested after he shot 18-year-old Luke de Villiers from Johannesburg who was visiting a neighbouring farm in the shoulder.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Also leads with a report about the first day’s voting and writes everything went mostly smoothly.

And secondly, it is reported Stellenbosch University has informed the chief executive of the agricultural organisation Saai, dr Theo de Jager, that a previous conviction for fraud does not disqualify him from the university’s convocation.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the police have deployed reinforcements to deal with the violent taxi strike in Mthatha.

And reports more human remains have been found at the George disaster scene.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports faulty voter management devices, voter lists that were not available in alphabetical order, long queues, and polling stations opening late were some of the problems encountered on the first day of voting in Nelson Mandela Bay.

And secondly, the paper writes soldiers were deployed to combat violent taxi strikes which resulted in more than 100 polling stations in the Eastern Cape not opening.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the police in KwaZulu-Natal have been put on high alert after the MK Party threatened election violence in the province.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports the government’s decision to set aside more than 125-million-rand for internships has been dismissed by some as a political ploy.

And secondly, the paper writes a group of Angolan citizens who sell wooden wares on the street in Windhoek and Swakopmund are unhappy because they have been placed in a temporary home.