The headlines of the leading newspapers on 16 September 2026: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports that a Kenyan court has blocked Vodacom’s 36-billion-rand takeover of Safaricom. The paper writes the ruling cites arbitrary pricing and concerns regarding competition, particularly concerning the sale of the state’s shareholding. # And the Netwerk24 website: Reports acting Police minister […]
# Prime minister Mark Carney says Canada is pursuing a unique security and economic alliance with the European Union. This as Ottawa is seeking to reduce its economic dependence on the US, as the trade war between the two countries has deepened over the last month. After trade talks suddenly collapsed last month, the two […]
# Gauteng se premier, Panyaza Lesufi, sê hy vertrou dat almal wat verantwoordelik is vir die moorde op agt vroue in en om Kemptonpark in Ekurhuleni voor die reg gebring sal word. ʼn Multidissiplinêre, hoëvlak-polisiespan ondersoek die moorde en ʼn beloning van 400-duisend-rand word aangebied vir inligting wat tot ʼn deurbraak in die ondersoek kan […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared 4 November 2026, the day of the local government elections, a public holiday. A total of 546 political parties will contest the elections, while more than 140-thousand candidates have been nominated to contest ten-thousand-526 council seats across the country. Ramaphosa has called on all registered voters to use the […]
# Die waarnemende nasionale polisiekommissaris, Puleng Dimpane, sê ʼn verdagte is aangekeer in verband met een van die moorde wat in Julie in Kemptonpark, Ekurhuleni, gepleeg is en die polisie soek na nog ʼn persoon van belang. Agt vroue se liggame is die afgelope twee maande in die metro ontdek. Dimpane sê van die slagoffers […]
# Die regering het ʼn leningsooreenkoms van 16,2-miljard-rand by die New Development Bank onderteken om infrastruktuur vir die Metropolitaanse Munisipale Dienste op te knap. Dit is deel van die Metro-handelsdienste-hervormingsprogram om die bestuur, finansiële volhoubaarheid en bedryfsprestasie van munisipale handelsdienste in metropolitaanse munisipaliteite te verbeter, veral wat water en sanitasie, elektrisiteit en energie, en vaste-afvalbestuur […]
# Swimming: Swimming South Africa has agreed to pay Olympic champion Tatjana Smith the full amount of interest claimed on prize money withheld for more than a year. She won around 560-thousand-400 after securing gold and silver at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Japan. Swimming SA only paid Smith the money after she participated […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies sê die dodelike Ebola-uitbreking in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo versprei oor die land, ten spyte van ʼn mate van sukses om dit te beperk. Sewe-duisend-200 Ebola-gevalle is aangemeld en byna drie-duisend-500 mense is daaraan dood. Hierdie uitbreking is die tweede ergste op rekord. Die ergste was die een in Wes-Afrika […]
# Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says he is confident that all those responsible for the murders of the eight women in and around Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni will be brought to justice. A high-level, multidisciplinary police team is investigating the murders, as a 400-thousand-rand reward has been offered for information that could lead to a […]
