Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 10 November 2026:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports on Cat Matlala’s appearance before the Madlanga Commission. He testified that he paid 500-thousand-rand to former deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya after Sibiya threatened his family. He denied that this was a bribe. Matlala also alleged that former deputy minister Bernice Swarts received 80-thousand-rand from him.

# And the Netwerk24 website:

Reports while the MK Party in KwaZulu-Natal refuses to acknowledge that it has lost support in the province, the figures indicate a decline of 10.19 percentage points over the past two years.

Secondly, the website reports the 84-year-old rapist from Petrusburg, Barend Hendrik van der Berg, has died of a heart attack in Grootvlei Prison.

GAUTENG:

# The Star:

Writes a member of Parliament for the Freedom Front Plus, Wouter Wessels, supports the appointment of KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, lieutenant general Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, as the head of the Hawks. He states Mkhwanazi has demonstrated a willingness to speak out against misconduct within the police service.

# Sowetan:

Reports ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has set two conditions for the DA. In Johannesburg, the party wants the DA’s mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, to be removed, and in Tshwane, it demands that Nasiphi Moya be appointed as mayor.

# And The Citizen:

Writes the ANC finds itself backed into a corner following the election. The challenge is to change, or else become a party that is politically insignificant.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Reports ActionSA has made it clear that, in Johannesburg, it would rather work with the MK Party than with Helen Zille of the DA.

Secondly, the paper writes there are many questions surrounding the death of 26-year-old Lynze Jansen, whose body was found tied to a tree at the Ashbury cemetery in Montagu.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports a cash-in-transit robbery in Gqeberha escalated into a shootout with the police. Five suspected robbers were shot and killed during the incident.

Also, there is news regarding senior citizens who have been hit with electricity bills amounting to thousands of rands.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:

Reports the water supply to Pietermaritzburg’s central business district was cut off after a company demolishing a bridge over Old Edenvale Road failed to make prior arrangements with the Msunduzi Water Department.

Additionally, the paper reports the so-called “Hilton Abuser”—who faces 79 charges brought by women—has been apprehended.

And finally, from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports an independent technical review by the International Atomic Energy Agency has raised concerns regarding potential groundwater contamination at the proposed Wings uranium mining project in the Omaheke Region.

And secondly, the paper reports the Namibian government has admitted under oath that the class register of the K.W. von Marees Combined School in Okahandja—for the day on which five-year-old Ingrid Maasdorp disappeared—has gone missing.