The headlines of the leading newspapers on 22 August 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the Constitutional Court will deliver a final ruling on the Competition Commission’s decade-long battle to prosecute local and international banks accused of manipulating the rand. This follows a three-day hearing that could push the boundaries of competition law in the country.
# Mail & Guardian on Fridays:
Writes about the ongoing health hazards of asbestos in South Africa.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports deputy commissioner of police, lieutenant general Shadrack Sibiya, says in court papers that he is being scapegoated in the police’s corruption investigation.
Then the website writes Build One South Africa says he is not opposed to the national dialogue, but to an RNE that includes the MK Party and EFF.
And finally, it is reported that the South African National Defence Force has strongly denied that three Oryx helicopters were abandoned in the DRC.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Also writes about the Competition Commission’s Constitutional Court case. The paper reports Standard Bank accused the commission of ignorance but the commission says the bank is doing everything in its power to evade the damning charges against it.
# Sowetan:
Reports survivors of the Johannesburg Usindiso fire two years ago, in which 76 people died, are being attacked and robbed in the area where they have been resettled. It also appears that the case against the arsonist will not proceed because the state witnesses cannot be located.
# And The Citizen:
Writes 548 cases of bullying involving learners are currently being investigated. The paper looks at the reasons why the youth are so angry.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports that the DA is demanding the resignation of the minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Angie Motshekga, over the claims of the head of the army in Libya. The DA says the minister is deliberately protecting General Rudzani Maphwanya.
And secondly, the paper writes about the leopard that ran amok in Mookgophong yesterday and attacked, among other things, a gardener.
EASTERN CAPE:
# Daily Despatch in East London:
Reports residents of East London are upset about the electricity tariffs that the Buffalo City metro wants to introduce.
And secondly, it writes about a motorist who miraculously escaped an attack at a filling station on the N2.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes that the metro police conducted a raid in Pietermaritzburg’s city centre and seized fake products.
And reports about a Pietermaritzburg resident who turns 105.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports six years after its official registration, the Ngcove Junior Primary School in the Kavango East region is still functioning without water, toilets, or proper classrooms.
Then the paper writes the e-taxi and delivery service Yango in Namibia is ready to comply with the instructions of the ministry of Works and Transport.
And finally, there is news about the F4 racer Adriaan Nel who participated in a race in Angola.