Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 05 December 2023:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports on the Constitutional Court’s decision that independent candidates only need a thousand signatures or 15-percent of the people in the area in which they are eligible to participate in the election.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Leads with the sheriff’s unsuccessful attempt to seize the ANC’s assets to pay off debts of more than 100-million-rand owed to Enzulweni Investments for, among other things, election posters in 2019. The ANC will now file an appeal against the seizure order in the Constitutional Court.

Then the paper reports on the memorial service for Magdaleen Prinsloo and her daughter Ruzanne Weideman from Hartbeespoort. Prinsloo’s husband Paul Prinsloo was arrested earlier in connection with the murders.

And finally, there is news about the South African Air Force’s memorial in Swartkop outside Pretoria which has been vandalised.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Also writes about the sheriff’s failed seizure at the ANC’s head office.

And reports former president Thabo Mbeki says South Africa’s economy is pulling the whole of Africa down.

# Sowetan:

Reports the violence in Diepsloot has now spilled over to the schools in the area. Learners bring weapons to school to settle disputes.

# And The Citizen:

Writes there are many questions about the 443 Zimbabwean children who were stopped at the Beit Bridge Border Post and sent back. It would appear that the incident is not related to human trafficking, but rather that the children were smuggled into South Africa.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Has the same lead as Beeld about the failed seizure of the ANC’s assets.

And secondly, it is reported the body of the missing 16-year-old Machaka Radebe from Rocklands was found with a stab wound in her back in an open field.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Has the same lead as Beeld and Volksblad.

Then it reports about an armed robbery at Lion’s Head in which two hikers’ watches and mobile phones were taken.

And finally, the paper writes a 35-year-old man was arrested for kidnapping a man in the Strand. This follows after the family paid 150-thousand-rand as ransom.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the ANC is still not relieved of its debt of 105-million-rand to Enzulweni Investments. The party prevented the sheriff from executing a seizure order yesterday.

And secondly, it is reported the South Africans who were trapped in Gaza were allowed to flee across the border to Egypt.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports a decision can be taken by Thursday about hundreds of years of history of Gqeberha. According to a motion before the council, the EFF in Nelson Mandela Bay demands the immediate removal of all colonial heritage sites, portraits, and statues across the metro.

And secondly, the paper writes about the grief of the parents of the 14-year-old Oyisa Breakfast who died in a car accident at the weekend.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the Ingonyama Trust is considering taking over the beleaguered sugar company Tongaat Hulett. The trust is now bidding against a businessman who is also interested in the company.

# And Witness in Pietermaritzburg:

Reports the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal will attempt to enlist the support of minority groups in the province for next year’s election.

And finally, from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports more than five-hundred Himbas from all over the Kunene region gathered at a settlement near Epupa to pay respect to the legendary ex-soldier Koos Cunene Verwey. He was buried according to Himba tradition.

And secondly, the paper writes two men on trial for the murder of the couple, Siegfried and Brunhild Riedel on their farm in the Gobabis area six years ago pleaded not guilty. They allegedly burned down the couple’s house with their bodies still inside.