The headlines of the leading newspapers on 06 October 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports deputy minister of Finance, David Masondo, has described the Public Investment Corporation’s decision to suspend its chief investment officer, Kabelo Rikhotso, as a management decision. Rikhotso is accused of improper conduct by a whistleblower.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports major general Johan Booysen and 22 other members of the Hawks’ Cato Manor unit’s civil claim against the minister begins today. This follows after Booysen and his team were ostracised as a murder gang in 2012 and arrested.
Then the website writes families paid tribute to the deceased at the White Cross Monument for Farm Murders on Saturday. The site is off the N1 between Polokwane and Mokopane.
And finally, it is reported the autopsy on the South African ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, will possibly be completed today. The family hopes his remains will be released today.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Writes ActionSA’s newly announced Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, Xolani Khumalo, has identified several critical issues he plans to address if elected mayor. These include maladministration, the high crime rate, corruption, and widespread drug problems within the community. However, the paper asks if a television star could be expected to save a metro.
# Sowetan:
Reports it is nine months after the Usindiso fire in which 76 people died and the Johannesburg Metro has not yet issued a report. Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi will now step in.
# And The Citizen:
Writes it is an open question whether ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba will run against the DA’s Helen Zille for mayor of Johannesburg in next year’s election.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Firstly, reports about the successes of Eskom as outlined by the minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. It appears that the power supplier’s generation capacity is now so strong that load-shedding is a thing of the past.
And secondly, the paper writes two police sergeants were trapped over a pangolin.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Writes about the people of Walmer who complain about the street vendors in front of their shops.
And reports about a principal who is in trouble for pouring hot water on unruly learners.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Reports there were so many arrests for traffic violations this past weekend that there is no more room in the police cells in Pietermaritzburg.
And secondly, the paper writes about the garbage around the prime minister’s office.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the Supervisory Authority for Financial Institutions of Namibia has confirmed that it has submitted reform advice to the government on the state medical fund Psemas. In the past financial year, the government spent almost four-billion-rand on the fund.
And secondly, the paper notes that the Namibian Parliament has acknowledged it lacks an official mechanism to address the growing backlog of unanswered parliamentary questions.