Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 30 May 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the Electoral Commission predicts a voting percentage of 66-percent or even higher and this is 20-percent higher than the local elections in 2021. According to experts, this could have adverse consequences for the ANC’s power base.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Also reports on the expected higher turnout and writes about special measures taken to support polling stations where the turnout was higher than expected. There is also news about problems encountered at polling stations which led to the stations opening late.

And secondly, there is a report about the voting problems of the writer Dana Snyman, who apparently received an SMS but could not vote.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes voters who are undecided can change the entire political scenario.

And reports the police will guard the ballot boxes overnight.

# Sowetan:

Leads with: “WE SHOWED UP”. The paper also reports on the higher expected turnout and voters who say their participation in the election empowers them to be active citizens.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports the first indications are that the voting percentage in the Free State and Northern Cape is low. By six o’clock yesterday afternoon, only about 14-percent of the registered voters had voted. The DA says this can be attributed to ANC supporters who are apathetic towards their party.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Also leads with the election and has a photo montage of the most important polling stations in the country on its front page.

# And Cape Times:

Reports the long wait is just beginning – it is the wait for the results.

And secondly, the paper writes the voters are going to make history in the country.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports although the polling stations in Gqeberha’s northern areas were crowded, there were many who also decided to stay away and expressed their unhappiness in this way.

And secondly, the paper writes visually and physically disabled residents of Nelson Mandela Bay say that adequate provisions have not been made for them

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the people voted for a better life in South Africa. The newspaper’s headline reads: “THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN – WE WANT CHANGE”.

# And The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:

Reports on the huge turnout at the polls in KwaZulu-Natal.

And writes Pietermaritzburg will purchase a 3.5-million-rand generator.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports parents from Walvis Bay who want to queue for days in front of schools where the enrolment process opens for pre-primary and Grade 1 learners, have been warned that their children will apparently not be considered.

And secondly, the paper writes more than 80-percent of the incidents of suicide reported since the beginning of the year are men.