The headlines of the leading newspapers on 13 June 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the government is considering providing further guarantees to Transnet in addition to the 51-billion-rand announced last month. The paper writes the freight and rail group has already used up the 47-billion-rand it received from the National Treasury in December 2023.
# Mail & Guardian on Fridays:
Writes Johannesburg residents must stay in shacks while their allocated houses are allegedly hijacked by city officials.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State have been declared national disaster areas due to widespread flooding in the provinces. The death toll in the Eastern Cape has risen to 78.
Then the website writes deputy president Paul Mashatile says South Africa will not apply for social assistance from America again. He says the country is talking to its partners in BRICS.
And finally, it is reported the survivor of the Indian air disaster told how he survived the disaster.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Reports the African Transformation Movement has removed its president, Vuyolwethu Zungula, and reinstated party founder and spiritual leader Caesar Nongqungwa as party leader. According to experts, this is related to Zungula’s opposition to a possible merger with the MK Party.
# Sowetan:
Dedicates its entire front page to the commemoration of Youth Day on Monday. The paper writes the challenges facing today’s youth are just as real as during the 1976 Soweto protests.
# And The Citizen:
Writes South Africans are holding their breath as the country’s sportsmen and women compete internationally in cricket, rugby and soccer.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Has the same lead as Netwerk24 on the floods.
And reports billionaire Elon Musk’s rockets may soon be launched from Waenhuiskrans.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports an attempt by a faction in the National Alliance failed to get rid of the party’s president, Gary van Niekerk, with a petition. There were apparently repetitions of names and missing pages in the petition.
And secondly, the paper writes a consortium of South African and international investors are planning to upgrade the former Fish River Sun resort outside Port Alfred at a cost of 600-million-rand.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Firstly, also writes about the Indian plane crash.
And reports about a woman who managed to chase away a lion that wanted to attack her.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports clinical psychologist, Shaun Whittaker says sports betting and gambling have become so addictive that some people are reportedly sleeping in gambling dens. He says the new trend is particularly prevalent among the youth.
And secondly, the paper writes the withdrawal of all liquid medication manufactured by Fabupharm Namibia is putting state hospitals and clinics in Namibia under pressure.