The headlines of the leading newspapers on 10 March 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the famous South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard has died in his home in Stellenbosch after a long illness. The paper writes Fugard was named the greatest living playwright in the English-speaking world by Time magazine in 1989.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports on the murder of 32-year-old Bevan Dudley from Cape Town. He was allegedly stabbed with a knife by an acquaintance who was looking for money for drugs and left on an island in the N1. Dudley was a nurse at Mediclinic Cape Gate.
Then the website writes the minister of Sport, Recreation, and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, says South Africa’s farmers will not adapt to America. He said at the Farmers’ Market in Bloemfontein that farmers have freedom in South Africa.
And finally, the page also writes about Athol Fugard’s death.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Write it appears from a report by Right to Justice that a whistleblower report on Prasa tenders awarded to Maziya General Services was in fact compiled by the company’s competitors.
And secondly, political analyst, Professor Amanda Gouws is reported to say that AfriForum does not represent all Afrikaners and she feels offended that this assumption is made.
# Sowetan:
Reports on Johannesburg’s crumbling and collapsing bridges. The city council admitted that the last inspection was carried out nine years ago and that heavy rains are contributing to the deterioration.
# And The Citizen:
Writes there are more than five-thousand pending cases at the deeds office after employees decided they could no longer work in unsafe conditions. The lift in the 31-storey office block is also no longer working. It seems that the government is paying no attention to the problems.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Also reports on the murder of Bevan Dudley and Gayton McKenzie’s message to the farmers.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Firstly reports on the murder of human rights activist, Pamela Mabini who was shot dead in her vehicle in front of her house in Tshauka Street in KwaZakhele.
And secondly, the paper writes about a crisis at the Driftsands sewage plant where millions of litres of sewage water are flowing into the sea daily.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes the KwaZulu-Natal government has received three-billion-rand to repair the recent flood damage.
And secondly, reports about a visit to the new correctional centre in Pietermaritzburg.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the increased price of maize is hindering the purchase of enough supplies for the all-important school feeding programme, according to the education ministry.
And secondly, writes the electricity supplier in the North, Nored, has discovered more than 520 illegal electricity connections.