Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 28 August 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the Constitutional Court will hear Vodacom SA’s application for leave to appeal in the ongoing Please Call Me case. The legal dispute in which a former employee, Nkosana Makate is demanding billions of rand, has been going on for 16 years.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports Namibia plans to shoot 723 wild animals including 83 elephants and 30 hippos to combat the famine in the country. The country’s ministry of Environmental Affairs, Forestry, and Tourism says the project forms part of nature conservation.

Then the paper writes the 17-year-old suspect in the murder of 16-year-old Deveney Nel from Caledon was moved to another place of detention for fear of his life.

And finally, there is a snippet about a robber who was shot dead by security guards during a chase in Centurion.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes the company appointed to rehabilitate Lilian Ngoyi Street (Bree Street) in Johannesburg after the gas explosion’s contract was terminated because the task was not completed.

And secondly, the paper spoke to the survivor of an attack on a farm in Limpopo. Two women were shot dead during the incident.

# Sowetan:

Reports a man from Mpumalanga, Mlungisi Maseko used a payout of 1.3 million rand from the Road Accident Fund to improve water supply to his community.

# And The Citizen:

Writes the new ANC mayor of Johannesburg, Dada Morero is being attacked by his own party because, according to analysts, he is curbing the free spending of city funds.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports the Griekwastad murderer, who cannot be identified due to his age when the crime was committed, appeared before the parole board. He was sentenced for the murders of his adoptive parents and sister in 2012 and is now 28 years old.

Then the paper writes the minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu says the possibility of police involvement is being investigated in the kidnapping of pastor Philip Mashudu and his wife Elsie from Bethlehem. The couple were freed by the police in Gauteng and four men were arrested.

And finally, there is news about the porcupine and the skunk that still come to visit a house in Bloemfontein. However, the badger that was part of the group has disappeared.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Reports calls for the minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Thembi Simelane to resign is escalating. She is involved in an alleged loan from the VBS Bank.

And secondly, the paper also writes about the safety of the suspect in the Nel murder case.

# And Cape Times:

Writes about damage and disruption in the Cape of Storms.

And reports the police are investigating after a man was apparently stabbed with a knife during an eviction.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports the residents of Nelson Mandela Bay, where at least 40 people have been killed in the past two weeks, have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew.

And secondly, the paper writes it is not only businesses that suffer from the power outage in Gqeberha. The Nelson Mandela University also had to suspend some of its classes.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes a large-scale police operation has been launched against hijacked buildings in eThekwini.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republic in Windhoek:

Reports an interdict has been granted against planned mining operations and the construction of a road in a tourism concession area in the Khorixas district.

Then the newspaper writes a suspected game thief was arrested this past weekend after he was caught with more than 180 game skins.

And finally, there is news about Martha McNab’s Step Up Ark Foundation, which assists victims of gender violence.