Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 29 August 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the Department of Health expects to release its first set of draft regulations for the National Health Insurance Act for public comment within the next month.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Reports the beleaguered minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Thembi Simelane says she will give full feedback to Parliament about the alleged VBS scandal in which she is involved. President Cyril Ramaphosa is also demanding an explanation from her.

Then the paper writes about the players’ changing rooms at Ellispark, that have been renovated. It is now among the best in the world.

And finally, there is a snippet about a three-year-old boy who broke a jar that is three-thousand-500 years old in an Israeli museum.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes the Special Investigation Unit and Asset Seizure Unit swooped down on the Lotto looters.

And reports the youth of Soweto are planning a march on unemployment.

# Sowetan:

Reports two former heads of state-owned enterprises who had direct links with the Guptas, Siyabonga Gama and Brian Molefe were yesterday inaugurated as MPs for the MK party. The paper’s headline reads: “AHEE! SAXONWOLD MOVES TO CAPE TOWN”.

# And The Citizen:

Writes according to experts, National Health Insurance must also prepare for specialised medical services provided by private medical funds.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports three patients died at the psychiatric hospital in Kimberley after allegedly contracting pneumonia because they did not have enough blankets. The HRC is investigating.

And secondly, the paper writes about a feed donation to 50 farmers in the Northern Cape whose livestock are dying due to the drought.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Has the same lead as Beeld about Simelane.

Then it is reported the Western Cape government must cut two-thousand-400 teaching positions after the central government cut the budget.

And finally, the paper also writes about the child who broke the Israeli jar.

# And Cape Times:

Also writes about Simelane who says she is willing to answer any questions.

And reports that a teacher who allegedly used the k-word was fired.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports a family of five, including three children, died when their house caught fire in Missionvale.

And writes Nelson Mandela Bay will need one-billion-rand to renovate its crumbling electricity infrastructure. There were 30 unplanned power outages in August.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes there have been appeals from all over that municipal workers in the city should not get any increases.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports the naked body of a seven-year-old girl was found in an abandoned house at the old date farm near Mariental. The police are investigating.

Then the paper writes out of the almost 12-thousand pregnancies recorded in Ohangwena over one year, there were two-thousand-102 teenage pregnancies.

And finally there is news about a teacher’s soup kitchen that feeds more than 70 children in an informal settlement.