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Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 30 October 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports Vodacom wants to appeal the Competition Tribunal’s decision to block its merger with Remgro’s fibre division. This would have resulted in Vodacom acquiring a 30-percent stake in Maziv. This move would profoundly affect the country’s telecommunications landscape.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports the agreement to allow holders of diplomatic, official, and service passports to travel between South Africa and Ukraine without a visa has not yet been finalised. This follows after the minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, announced that it had already been completed.

Then the paper writes about the 20 years, 30 seasons, and more than 570 episodes of the La’t wiel TV programme.

And finally, there is news about the recovery of Alison Botha after a recent brain aneurysm. Botha was in the news when she was brutally raped and left for dead 30 years ago.

# The Star & Pretoria News:

Writes the ANC wants the VAT on more food items to be abolished.

And reports a renovation project of 1.3-billion-rand that was envisaged for Alexandra has been stopped for the time being.

# Sowetan:

Reports the taxi industry is also now being targeted by hijackers. They are known as hitchhikers who demand a ransom from taxi drivers. Even private motorists are threatened to pay a ransom for their vehicles.

# And The Citizen:

Leads with: “NO HOUSE IN YOUR LIFETIME”. The paper writes the Department of Human Settlements in Gauteng only builds about nine-thousand houses every year, which means the average resident waits 150 years for a house.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Firstly, reports on the sadness after the murder of the 32-year-old farm manager, Ian Boshoff at the Snymanshof Lodge in Buffelshoek. His body was found in his office.

And secondly, the paper writes a contractor who held the municipalities of Theunissen and Winnie Mandela, hostage, by cutting off their water supply has been ordered by the court to restore the supply.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Reports the chancellor of Stellenbosch University, judge Edwin Cameron, has been asked to withdraw his hurtful statements about the panel that investigated the Wilgenhof residence. He apparently claimed that the final report was changed by the improper influence of the rector.

And secondly, the paper also writes about the recovery of Allison Botha.

# And Cape Times:

Writes elderly people in townships are threatened for their pension money.

And reports Parliament says no to an ad hoc committee on extortion.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports a driver from Nelson Mandela Bay drove his vehicle into the sea after a passenger held a gun to his head.

And secondly, the paper writes a police officer rescued a turtle that had been chained and imprisoned by a sangoma for three decades.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the residents of Umhlanga have demanded that all fireworks sales there be stopped.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports the speaker of the Namibian Parliament described it as very sad that the mid-term budget could not be tabled for the second time.

And secondly, the paper writes the chief officer of the Kunene Regional Council could not provide any information about the region and Opuwo’s ​​dire financial situation.