The headlines of the leading newspapers on 02 October 2024:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports Iran launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for its campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. The paper writes alarms that went off across Israel sent residents fleeing to bomb shelters.
GAUTENG:
# Beeld:
Reports the accused in the murder of Reneé Lea van Standerton, Cuan Karelse argued that he should be granted bail because he has to look for work to assist his pregnant girlfriend and attend the birth of his child. The application was not granted.
Then the paper writes the Weather Service predicts a hot summer for the interior with severe thunderstorms and hail.
Furthermore, it is reported that the sheriff seized, among other things, a coal stove and an air fryer at the house of the controversial diamond dealer, Louis Liebenberg’s ex-girlfriend, Ronelle Kleynhans.
And finally, there is news about prince Harry, who will visit Lesotho and South Africa later this week.
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Writes the Public Protector, Kholeka Gcaleka has criticised the management of the Department of Correctional Services for the handling of serial rapist Thabo Bester’s escape.
And secondly, it is reported the tension between the ANC and DA threatens the stability of the government of national unity.
# Sowetan:
Reports a rape victim is delighted that she won her court battle against the assumption that a rapist can present consensual intercourse as a defence.
# And The Citizen:
Writes with the water supply from the Lesotho Highlands Project now cut off, Gauteng municipalities will have to work sparingly with water and repair leaks in the infrastructure.
FREE STATE:
# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:
Reports ex-Bok Naka Drotské and a friend Lionel Palmer appear in the Magistrate’s Court after allegedly assaulting a neighbour, John de la Hunt. The latter allegedly sent inappropriate text messages about Drotské’s wife.
Secondly, the paper also writes about the Public Protector’s report on Thabo Bester.
And finally, it is reported that the farmers of Memel in the North-Eastern Free State are hoping for help after fires wreaked havoc.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports the Court of Appeal has dismissed the former Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s leave to appeal against a previous decision of the High Court in the Western Cape and criticised it as frivolous.
And secondly, the paper also reports on Naka Drotské.
# And Cape Times:
Also writes about the tension between the ANC and DA in the government of national unity.
And reports the police commissioner says arrests will soon follow after the Lusikisiki massacre.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro is suffering from an aging workforce, more than a thousand vacant positions, and 96-million-rand worth of sick leave.
And secondly, writes construction mafias are once again in the spotlight with Nelson Mandela Bay’s Directorate of Human Settlements highlighting delays on key projects stemming from a need for security escorts to building sites.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# Daily News in Durban:
Writes members of the community marched to Wentworth Hospital yesterday to hand over a petition about the circumstances at the hospital.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the Kokoseb gold project in northwestern Namibia has grown by 63-percent since last year to 2.12-million ounces of underground gold.
And secondly, the paper writes that two applications were received from American hunters to import hunting trophies from two black rhinos from Namibia into the country.