The headlines of the leading newspapers on 24 January 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill, which highlights the ideological differences in the government of national unity. The DA has already indicated that its legal team will challenge the law.
# Mail & Guardian on Fridays:
Writes the families of victims of apartheid crimes demand action on the cases that were allegedly deliberately ignored by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports the EFF has in addition to filing a criminal complaint also reported the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, to the Public Protector. The party says the minister is not acting in the spirit of good governance.
Then the paper writes the general expectation is that the Reserve Bank will cut the interest rate again next week.
And finally, it is reported that the FF Plus has asked the Free State MEC for Health, Monyatso Mahlatsi, to urgently intervene at the Bloemfontein District Hospital.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Writes the Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by former judge Nkola Motata for direct access to have the National Assembly’s decision to dismiss him set aside.
# Sowetan:
Also reports that the signing of the Expropriation Bill is causing conflict in the government of national unity with the DA preparing legal action.
# And The Citizen:
Writes that the attack by the president of Botswana, Duma Boko, on South Africa at the World Economic Forum was described as unsolicited.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports about the murder of the headmaster of the Ekuthuleni Primary School in Kraaifontein, Jeffrey Sigudla. He was shot by three men in his car shortly before school started.
Then the paper has another two short stories on its front page:
It reports about 17-year-old Alexander Blignault who was bitten by a puff adder at a friend’s house in Colenso and writes the body of the 67-year-old paraglider who crashed was found in a river in Citrusdal.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports the Kouga municipality has launched a road repair project funded by the Development Bank of Southern Africa at a cost of 200-million-rand.
And secondly, the paper writes municipal swimming pools in Nelson Mandela Bay are in murky waters after the chlorine ran out.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes the South African Reserve Bank says Ithala Bank is insolvent. However, the bank has submitted its financial statements which allegedly indicate that it is not bankrupt.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports teachers and learners at a school in Rundu say their complaints about the unhygienic and dangerous conditions at their school’s toilet facilities have so far been ignored.
Then the paper writes a group of highly endangered black rhinos will be protected at a nature reserve until March 6, when the court case over their future continues.
And finally, there is news about the annual Ace Charity Golf Day, which raises money for the African Child Development Trust.