The headlines of the leading newspapers on 07 May 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports Moody’s has lowered South Africa’s GDP growth projection for 2025 to 1.5-percent. This is a downgrade of 0.2-percentage points from its February projection. In its latest global outlook, the rating agency expects the global economy to grow by 1.9-percent in 2025 and 2.3-percent in 2026. This is a sharp reduction from its previous forecast.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports the DA argued in the High Court in Pretoria that the Employment Equity Amendment Bill gives the minister of Employment Creation and Labour carte blanche to arbitrarily set racial targets for businesses with more than 50 members.
Then the website writes an urgent application has been filed in the High Court in Cape Town to place the parents of the founder of Kleuterzone, Anthonie Bougas, under provisional sequestration.
And finally, there is news about South Africa’s car of the year. It is the locally built BMW X3.
GAUTENG:
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Reports former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana has challenged the South African Revenue Service’s application to seize his assets, claiming the tax claim against him is unfounded and politically motivated. The dispute stems from a 46-million-rand tax assessment that the Revenue Service is seeking to recover from Montana.
# Sowetan:
Reports the weapon used to shoot and kill five-year-old Dithebogo Phalane of Soshanguve, when his father’s bakkie was hijacked in May last year, was earlier stolen from a police officer when he was ambushed in an attempt to buy cattle.
# And The Citizen:
Writes the parents of 20-year-old Vilano Saunders of the North-West University who died after a rugby injury, say they will hold the university’s coaches responsible because Saunders was not trained to play in the front row.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Leads with the urgent application to provisionally sequester Bougas’ parents.
Then it is reported the DA says that the Constitutional Court ruling protecting the rights of South Africans with dual citizenship is a victory for all South Africans with a second nationality.
And finally, there is news about a pensioner from Grassy Park who won 13-million-rand on a Lotto Plus ticket.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports thousands of children in Nelson Mandela Bay are going hungry due to a delay in funding for the school feeding programme.
And secondly, the paper writes the residents of Bethelsdorp have formed security groups to escort municipal technicians from Nelson Mandela Bay who are trying to fix street lights.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes the municipal debt collection programme in eThekwini is being expedited.
And secondly reports about the psychological support being provided to teachers.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the Namibian Business and Intellectual Property Authority will start this month to deregister companies that have failed to comply with statutory requirements.
And secondly, the paper writes the Namibian Directorate of Aircraft Investigations will send the engines of the Cessna F406 that crashed in Pionierspark last year to Canada for further analysis. All three people on board died in the accident.