Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 06 August 2025:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the DA has tabled a private member’s bill proposing constitutional amendments to prevent individuals removed from key state institutions for misconduct from being re-elected to public office. This includes dismissed judges and former heads of Chapter 9 institutions.

# And the Netwerk24 website:

Reports president Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan to involve more parties in the government of national unity will have to be done in consultation with the DA as this is contained in the party’s statement of intent.

Secondly, the website writes the police’s action against a group of alleged robbers in Johannesburg may have been successful as a result of the robbers’ blind faith in traditional medicine. The police shot dead four suspects who were allegedly on their way to rob a businessman.

And finally, it is reported that the government has not yet been able to find any evidence of so-called Basotho training camps on South African farms. According to newspaper reports, the camps would train people to occupy land in the country.

GAUTENG:

# The Star:

Writes as the ANC faces numerous challenges, ANC veteran and National Executive Committee member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has stressed the need for the party to rebuild its organisational structures from the ground up.

And secondly, it is reported suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene has said he will take his fight to the Court of Appeal after the Gauteng High Court ruled that his description of EFF leader Julius Malema as a “cockroach” amounted to hate speech.

# Sowetan:

Reports the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confronted the government of Eswatini about dangerous criminals from the US being deported to the country. South Africa is seeking assurances that the criminals will not cross the border.

# And The Citizen:

Writes according to experts, there is evidence that the police overlook certain crimes when ANC cadres are involved. The paper reports the problem can only be solved with structural changes in the service.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Reports the 19-year-old Maties student, Chris Scheffers, whose body was found in his dorm room in Dagbreek at the weekend, did not commit suicide. It was determined that he died of meningitis.

And secondly, the paper writes the unregulated operation of Shein and Temu in South Africa has cost the clothing industry eight thousand jobs and one-billion-rand in revenue in the past five years.

EASTERN CAPE:

# Daily Despatch in East London:

Reports efforts are being made to save the Mercedes plant in East London by means of a lifeline.

And writes the fire chief testified in the judicial inquiry into the Enyobeni tavern disaster that the owners never applied for exemption certificates.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:

Writes counterfeit products worth 30-million-rand have been seized.

And reports that seven people have died in a taxi accident in KwaMpumza. The taxi veered off the road and crashed into a school building.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports several of Enercon’s staff have allegedly not received their salaries since June last year.

Then the paper writes some local councils, such as Keetmanshoop, Otjiwarongo, and Rehoboth, have already started to review their agreements with RedForce debt collection. Katima Mulilo, however, is refusing.

And finally, it is reported that Namibians should put on their winter coats again, because it is snowing in the South.