The headlines of the leading newspapers on 16 October 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports South Africa will benefit from the investment of approximately six-billion-rand from the multinational logistics company DHL. According to the paper, the investments will be made in the group’s three business interests on the African continent, and the improvements at Transnet have convinced DHL to also get involved locally.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports the ongoing claim of Enzulweni Investments, which has not been settled since 2019, has now led to the sheriff freezing the ANC’s bank accounts. The amount owed for election material is still 85-million-rand.
Then the website writes Chief Justice Mandisa Maya has scolded Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi for constantly showing up late to sessions of the Judicial Service Commission.
And finally, it is reported the wreckage of one of the two aircraft that went missing in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday has been located west of Howick, the pilot’s body has also been found. The search for a second missing plane continues today.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Writes the Court of Appeal ruled that Standard Bank circumvented the rules of the National Credit Act when it used the settlement agreements with a family trust to enforce its debt by obtaining an order that 14 immovable properties of the trust could not be disposed of.
# Sowetan:
Reports thousands of learners at nine schools in Tembisa and Ivory Park are now going hungry every day because the school feeding programme has been suspended. The provincial government admits there is a shortage of funds, and food suppliers say they have not been paid for months.
# And The Citizen:
Writes as the formal gambling industry is in decline, online gambling is attracting a 44-percent growth of younger professionals who are losing thousands in the hope of earning more.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports the alleged mastermind behind the Louiesenhof murder, Zurenah Smit, has been accused by the court of deliberately using techniques to delay the trial.
And secondly, the paper writes about 30-percent of the police air wing cannot be used. This includes planes and helicopters.
EASTERN CAPE:
# Daily Despatch in East London:
Reports on a family that had to wait three months to bury a flood victim.
And secondly, the paper writes there is a community trying to make a living under East London’s iconic esplanade.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes the infighting in the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is still ongoing.
And reports the Special Investigation Unit has urged the provincial government to cooperate in investigations.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the Mental Health Care Bill focuses on the rights of patients and the patients themselves and promotes dignity, equality and accessibility in all regions.
And secondly, the paper writes that two experienced tour guides are the heroes in a rescue attempt after a tourist plane had to make an emergency landing in the Namib Desert.