Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 06 August 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the rand weakened the most in almost two months yesterday due to fears that the US economy will fall into recession. The South African currency traded at 18-rand-68-cents against the dollar.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports the deputy minister of Water and Sanitation, David Mahlobo says that although South Africa will always have water, its management must change profoundly.

Then the paper writes about a historic blood transfusion from a Boston terrier cross to save the life of Roma, the pregnant pangolin.

And finally, the South African sprinter, Akani Simbine says his Olympic dream for 2028 is still alive.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes about a taxi boss who was shot dead in an assassination attack in Soweto.

And reports that the ANC’s alliance partners are unhappy with the party’s actions in the government of national unity.

# Sowetan:

Reports the controversial pastor Paseka “Mboro” Motsoeneng arrived at the Matsediso Primary School in Ekurhuleni armed with pangas and allegedly threatened to attack the teachers. Motsoeneng says he went looking for his son who was apparently assaulted by the teachers.

# And The Citizen:

Writes there seems to be discord in the MK Party about former president Jacob Zuma’s autocratic actions to hire and fire people at will.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports the minister in the Presidency charged with Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa yesterday could not control her own tears during a visit to an accident scene in Postmasburg in the Northern Cape where four people died.

Secondly, the paper writes the wife of the controversial diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg, Dezi managed to get back some of the seized assets. She proved in court that it was her property.

Finally, there is also a report about Akani Simbine’s dreams.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Leads with Akani Simbine’s dreams for 2028 and reports on other South Africans who may yet win medals on the athletics track.

And secondly, the paper also writes about Dezi Liebenberg’s assets.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the ANC is not worried about its alliance partners’ opposition to the government of national unity.

And reports the Cape Town construction mafia is facing opposition.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports routine DNA tests on a man arrested for stealing copper have revealed he is a serial rapist, linked to five unsolved cases between 2017 and 2021.

And secondly,  the newspaper writes a 54-year-old woman was arrested because she apparently threw battery acid in the face of a Nelson Mandela Bay matric student. The teenager’s father and their small dog were also injured in the process.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Reports an illegal school for autistic learners was exposed after a deaf and mute learner was assaulted by a teacher.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports due to a lack of adequate monitoring and evaluation of the resettlement process, it happens that the government buys a farm that lies fallow without any inhabitants for five years, before it is allocated to a beneficiary.

And secondly, the paper writes a member of Swapo’s central committee allegedly defrauded a woman by selling her a plot of land that was apparently registered in someone else’s name.