Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 19 September 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports consumer inflation slowed for the third consecutive month and fell below the Reserve Bank’s midpoint target. According to experts, this provides impetus for the Bank to lower interest rates today.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Firstly reports, budget cuts are also now beginning to hamper the police’s ability to effectively combat South Africa’s sky-high levels of serious crime, including extortion, which are reaching crisis levels. The paper writes the deputy minister of Police, Polly Boshielo, informed members of Parliament about this.

Then the paper writes freezing weather conditions, rain, thunderstorms and even snow are predicted for the weekend in various parts of the country. The Weather Service says temperatures will drop in the south today and in the north by the weekend.

And finally, there is a report on the Sasol Solar Challenge, which this year follows a new route that offers greater challenges for the designers of the solar-powered cars and the participants.

# The Star & Pretoria News:

Writes the EFF leader, Julius Malema says Floyd Shivambu’s departure from the party had no effect and the management is still united.

And reports on the dire state in which state houses are left when tenants move out.

# Sowetan:

Reports Home Affairs and Labour raided the Tang Restaurant in Sandton. Workers earn 600-rand in tips for a 14-hour day but receive no salary. Undocumented workers and the manager were arrested.

# And The Citizen:

Writes advocate Billy Downer who is the prosecutor in ex-president Jacob Zuma’s case says that state-capturers must know they are going to be prosecuted.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports on the Kompano Hospital Complex in Welkom. Members of Parliament and members of the Provincial Legislature visited the building. It has been ransacked and the departmental staff work among the rats while the rear part of the building is illegally occupied.

And secondly, the paper also writes about the Sasol Solar Challenge.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Leads with news about the train accident in the Paarl in which 25 people were injured. It is reported that the minister for Transport, Barbara Creecy has requested that the investigation be completed quickly.

Secondly, it is reported that the mother of the 17-year-old alleged murderer of Deveney Nel from Caledon apparently refuses to pay his legal fees. His parole application was withdrawn and he will be prosecuted as a minor.

And finally, there is news about Tretchikoff’s Balinese Girl, which was sold for six-million-rand.

# And Cape Times:

Writes food prices are still rising even though consumer inflation is slowing.

And also reports on the investigation into the train accident in the Paarl.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has started to replace traffic lights in some parts of the city with four-way stops due to vandalism.

And writes the country’s wool industry has launched a project that will see communal and subsistence farmers benefit from the knowledge and experience of business and agricultural leaders.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes there is an appeal to the government to regulate business forums so that action can be taken against extortion.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports more than 10 years after a repatriation process between Namibia and Botswana began, a group of BaTswanas of Namibian descent will be welcomed into the country tomorrow.

And secondly, the paper writes the government of Japan donated about nine-million-rand to the United Nations World Food Programme in Namibia to help with drought relief.