Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 16 May 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports president Cyril Ramaphosa has barely signed the National Health Insurance Bill when the trade union Solidarity and civil rights organisation AfriForum started a lawsuit against the law.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Leads like many other dailies with the NHI. The paper reports Ramaphosa said when signing the law that people should not fear the law. He promised a Rolls Royce system for South Africa.

And secondly, there is a report about the 23-year-old GC Fourie and Ivan Coetzee from UP who unloaded 25 bags of animal feed of 40 kilograms each from a bakkie in 42 seconds. This show of strength was at the Nampo Harvest Festival in Bothaville.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Also writes about the legal proceedings against the NHI.

And publishes an interview that the newspaper conducted with the building contractor of the building in George that collapsed.

# Sowetan:

Reports Ramaphosa has now approved the NHI, but it will take another four years to set up institutions before any benefit can be drawn from the insurance.

# And The Citizen:

Leads with: “NHI DEAD ON ARRIVAL?” The paper also writes about the many organisations that want to take legal action.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Has the same lead as Beeld about the NHI.

And secondly, it is reported that a 47-year-old man from Kathu has died and the Sea Rescue Institute is looking for 23-year-old Pierre Lotter and his three dachshunds after they were allegedly trapped on an island in Bloubergstrand during high tide.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Also leads with the NHI and secondly also writes about Pierre Lotter who is missing.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the United Nations has praised South Africa for adopting health insurance.

And reports as Die Burger and Volksblad about the search for Pierre Lotter and his dogs.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the EFF leader, Julius Malema says the result of the national and provincial elections will have no influence on the coalition government in the Bay.

And secondly, the paper writes health care workers in the Eastern Cape experience mental and physical stress as they struggle to cope with the constant flow of patients brought in with bullet wounds, stab wounds, and other violent trauma.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes that the absence of a DNA laboratory in KwaZulu-Natal is delaying the police’s investigation into the alleged rape of a child at a nursery school.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports learners from a school in the Ohangwena region are still sitting at home waiting for answers while the school and the ministry of Education, Arts and Culture are embroiled in a lawsuit.

Then the paper writes residents of certain informal settlements in Okahandja have been without water for the past two to three weeks.

And finally, there is news about a new modern educational facility in Henties Bay.