The headlines of the leading newspapers on 01 July 2026:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports president Cyril Ramaphosa reshuffled the National Executive last night, implementing the changes proposed by DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Also reports on Ramaphosa’s announcement last night that included the removal of John Steenhuisen as minister of Agriculture. Dina Pula, who was sacked during former president Jacob Zuma’s term, is the new minister of Social Development.
And secondly, the website writes about the course of the anti-migrant protests yesterday, which took place largely without incident.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Writes South Africa’s day of reckoning over illegal immigration ended largely peacefully, as the government had promised. But not before two people were wounded in a shooting in Hillbrow, soldiers were deployed on the streets of Johannesburg, and looters were arrested from Cape Town to Durban.
# Sowetan:
Reports the South African Police Service passed the test yesterday of handling large crowds peacefully protesting.
# And The Citizen:
Leads with: “IT’S NOT OVER”. The paper writes the leader of March and March, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, says that the organisation will protest every Thursday from now on until the migrants are gone
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Also reports on yesterday’s protests and writes in the Western Cape, several attempts by looters were thwarted. The Southern Cape was dead quiet.
And secondly, there is news about a man who was arrested at a house outside Durbanville after snakes and smoke grenades were found in his house.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports the most important incident yesterday during the anti-immigration protests in Nelson Mandela Bay was when residents and private security officers intervened on behalf of a migrant shop owner to protect him. Otherwise, everything went smoothly.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes the head of the KwaZulu-Natal Hawks, major general Lesetja Senona, has resigned with immediate effect. His resignation comes amid corruption allegations and the disappearance of about 541-kilograms of cocaine from a police storage facility in Port Shepstone.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the municipality of Hentiesbaai says supplier ITEM Engineering acted illegally by disconnecting the town’s prepaid water purchase system due to an alleged payment dispute.
And secondly, the paper writes a student at the University of Namibia’s Ogongo campus, Frans Amutenya, is currently harvesting his first 0.5-hectare of a rice field in the village of Omukuku, in Omusati.