The headlines of the leading newspapers on 04 March 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the deputy minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Zuko Godlimpi, has been appointed head of the ANC’s economic transformation committee. Godlimpi, the youngest member of the ANC’s national executive committee, replaces the minister of Justice, Mmamoloko Kubayi, who was deployed to Limpopo.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports former Solidarity board member Ernst Roets says fleeing to America is not a solution for Afrikaners. The website writes Roets says South Africans must now organise their own well-functioning communities.
Then the site writes President Donald Trump says America will no longer tolerate the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky’s rhetoric about the war against Russia.
And finally, there is news about a fire in Despatch in the Eastern Cape that claimed three lives.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Writes two ANC veterans, Tokyo Sexwale and Matthews Phosa, have reportedly placed a new focus on the controversy surrounding the Phala Phala scandal, despite Ramaphosa being found not guilty by the ANC’s Integrity Commission.
# Sowetan:
Reports medical research on vaccines in Africa has suffered a new setback with US funding cuts of about 869-million-rand earmarked for research and clinical trials.
# And The Citizen:
Writes Zimbabwean citizens in South Africa have made an urgent plea to be saved from xenophobic hatred in the country. They say they are treated as second-class citizens, vigilante groups rob and murder them and they earn starvation wages.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Firstly, reports on the first day of the Joshlin Smith case in the Saldanha Circuit High Court. Kelly Smith, Steveno van Rhyn and Jacquin Appollis appeared in connection with the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin and will enter pleas today.
And secondly, the paper writes the CEO of AfriForum, Kallie Kriel, says he has not had sleepless nights over the four charges of high treason laid against the organisation.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports the MEC for Education, Fundile Gade has promised that no expense will be spared for the medical treatment of a Motherwell learner who had to leave school after a failed appendectomy at Livingstone Hospital.
And secondly, the paper also writes about the fire in Despatch. Yolande Barnard lost her husband and two cousins in an unexplained house fire.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes a teenager was allegedly killed during a drug party in the city.
And reports many border posts are still closed due to flooding.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports a woman who was admitted to a state hospital in Windhoek last year to have a cyst on her ovaries removed later learned that the doctor who performed the operation allegedly damaged her intestines.
And secondly, the paper writes according to the minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, Albert Kawana, everything is in place for the introduction of the new visa policy from April 1.