The headlines of the leading newspapers on 04 June 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the Western Cape High Court has dismissed the EFF’s urgent application for a stay of the fuel levy increase that comes into effect today. This allows Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to raise 3.5-billion-rand.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports Floyd Shivambu has been sacked as secretary-general of the MK Party. He will now be redeployed as a member of Parliament. The decision is related to his visit to the controversial prophet Shepherd Bushiri in Malawi.
Then the website writes the case against the alleged murderers of 81-year-old Hendrik Venter of Kuruman has been struck off the roll due to a “lack of judicial diligence”. Venter was attacked at his farm gate in September last year.
And finally, it is reported 38 so-called “bus drivers” will help the Comrades athletes keep up their pace this year. The pacers are experienced athletes who help participants achieve their target times.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Also writes about Floyd Shivambu. The paper reports Shivambu has been accused of undermining the MK Party’s provincial leader in Mpumalanga, former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
# Sowetan:
Reports an IFP party official, Alco Ngobese, told the paper how he pretended to be dead during the assassination of IFP MP Khethamabala Sithole in Katlehong. Ngobese was shot in the head during the attack.
# And The Citizen:
Writes there are tens of thousands of ghost workers in the public service costing the taxpayer billions of rand. Most are in the police, the Education Department, and Prasa.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports on the grief of Chevon du Toit from Wellington whose husband Berto died in a car accident. Chevon is pregnant and they have a son Berto Junior.
Secondly, the paper writes about a police officer from Durban who is being disciplined after he drove around in a police vehicle without a driver’s door.
And finally, there is a report on 17-year-old Mongiwa Ntuli from Johannesburg who obtained her degree in actuarial science from Tuks.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports an on-site inspection was conducted in Nxuba yesterday as part of the judicial inquiry into the death of the so-called Cradock Four.
And secondly, the paper writes there are 74 vacant posts for medical doctors in Nelson Mandela Bay’s three top state hospitals. Urgent surgeries are being delayed and healthcare for the poor is being hampered.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Also writes about Floyd Shivambu of the MK Party’s fate.
And also reports former president Jacob Zuma will still have to answer in the Thales arms fraud case. The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has dismissed his application to drop the case.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports according to a school principal, Namibia has a problem with too few and at the same time too many staff. It appears that there is a problem with placements because there are still overcrowded classrooms and children cannot be turned away.
Then the paper writes a green scheme in the Kavango East region’s maize production has been reduced by half due to the unavailability of a combine harvester.
And finally, it is reported a payment system used by municipalities is creating a cycle of debt that keeps residents in a cycle of arrears and extra costs, even if they make regular payments.