The headlines of the leading newspapers on 10 June 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe applied in the Johannesburg High Court yesterday to have part of Judge Raymond Zondo’s state capture report stricken. The report recommends that he be investigated for corruption.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie has launched a project whereby the remains of freedom fighters and San and Khoi heroes will be brought back to South Africa. McKenzie says there is no price to be placed on this action.
Then the website writes the news that the federal chairperson of the DA, Helen Zille may stand as a mayoral candidate in Johannesburg has provoked a wide reaction. Zille says she has not even decided yet.
And finally there is news about the famous British author Frederick Forsyth who died yesterday at the age of 86.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Writes the South African Reserve Bank is investigating Nthabeleng Likotsi and her bank, YWBN Mutual Bank, over allegations that she may have provided false or misleading information during the bank’s application process. The move follows a fallout with investment firm AFRIBIZ Financial Services and could lead to serious legal consequences for Likotsi.
# Sowetan:
Reports Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has warned against the trade in livestock in order to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. The paper writes Steenhuisen is to purchase 72-million-rand worth of vaccine from Botswana.
# And The Citizen:
Writes children are not being protected from toxic food as the government has apparently forgotten its promise to appoint 500 food inspectors.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Leads with Comrades athlete Moira Harding who was found after she disappeared shortly after completing the marathon. She was found six kilometres from the finish line in Durban’s industrial area and is now in hospital. According to the family, she apparently became disoriented after the race.
Secondly, it is reported controversial diamond trader Louis Liebenberg has been finally sequestered in the High Court in Pretoria.
And finally, the paper writes the parents of 14-year-old Malcolm Booysen from Brakpan who was run over and killed by a 12-year-old say they have forgiven the child. The 12-year-old appeared in the Brakpan Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports South Africa’s former ambassador to Japan, Smuts Ngonyama, has called on the government to urgently intervene to prevent the closure of Goodyear SA’s Kariega plant.
And secondly, the paper writes about a five-year-old boy who drowned in Gqeberha at the weekend.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Also writes about missing Comrades athlete Moira Harding who has been located and admitted to hospital.
And secondly, it is reported that the incidence of foot-and-mouth disease is spreading.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports Namibian Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare says the new administration wants to ensure that all Namibians benefit from the country’s resources.
And secondly, the newspaper writes Namibians are shivering from the cold and more frost is predicted, except in the far North.