Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 09 July 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the nation’s largest auto parts retailer, AutoZone has voluntarily filed for business rescue after being engulfed by debt.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports a farmer and his brother-in-law were trapped near Ventersdorp this weekend when they tried to put out a wildfire. Louis Scholtz and Manie Jansen van Vuuren fought against a wind speed of 80 kilometres per hour.

Then the paper writes five women’s players from TuksRugby are leaving for Paris on Friday as members of the South African women’s sevens rugby team that will participate in the Olympic Games for the first time.

And finally, it is reported that the South African Police Service is guilty of unfair labour practices when it did not promote lieutenant colonel Jacques van den Berg of the Kliptown police station in Soweto because of his skin colour.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Reports the decision by the minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie to publish the names and amounts given to South African artists has been supported by some parts of the South African music and arts industry.

And secondly, the paper writes that directors-general who do not pay rates have been reprimanded.

# Sowetan:

Reports dozens of young graduates who cannot find work queued up in Johannesburg for security guard jobs that were advertised.

# And The Citizen:

Has good news for inland people and writes it’s going to get warmer again.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Firstly, reports how sister Cynthia Jantjies of the National District Hospital in Bloemfontein ran up and down the stairs with patients on her back when a fire broke out in the hospital.

And secondly, the paper writes about the widespread snow in the Free State and Northern Cape and publishes beautiful photos. There is also news about the low temperatures in the provinces.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Devotes its entire front page to photos and reports about the biting cold and widespread snow in the Western Cape. The paper reports that freezing weather, gale-force winds and more rain are forecast.

# And Cape Times:

Reports 29 schools in the Western Cape were damaged by the stormy weather, but the schools in the province are still reopening today.

And secondly, the paper writes the minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has warned that the huge sums owed to Eskom by municipalities could sink the state enterprise.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the writing is on the wall for almost a thousand Eastern Cape schools that will be closed or converted into boarding houses in the next five years in terms of the Education Department’s ongoing rationalisation programme.

And secondly, there is news about Capital Hotels, Apartments & Resorts opening a new hotel in the Boardwalk area in Gqeberha.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the schools in KwaZulu-Natal are ready to reopen for the third term.

And reports that numerous businesses in Durban are being threatened by syndicates.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports the ministry of Justice says the allowance of two-thousand-300-rand per month for government interns will be reviewed.

Then the paper writes a two-month-old baby girl died on Sunday after sleeping in her allegedly drunk mother’s arms.

And finally, there is news about the world’s largest floating book exhibition, Logos Hope, which has returned to Walvis Bay. The ship last visited Namibia in August 2016.