Morning Newspaper Report
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 11 December 2024:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition is investigating allegations of maladministration against some of the executives of the South African Bureau of Standards. The department has expressed its concern about, among other things, cyber security problems at the bureau.
GAUTENG:
# Beeld:
Reports the minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, has announced that 1.5 million tonnes of drugs, 42-thousand phones and 268 litres of liquor have been seized in the country’s prisons in the past 12 months. Groenewald says that since he took over the portfolio, there have been intensified raids in prisons.
Then the paper writes the Lebombo border post has been closed again due to protests in Mozambique and holidaymakers have to use the Kosi Bay border post.
And finally, there is a report about JP and Lila du Plessis who have been delivering newspapers for almost 40 years.
# The Star & Pretoria News:
Reports on the case against IEC commissioner Nomsa Masuku. Her cousin Ciniso Masuku has been added to the list of accused, strengthening the state’s case.
And secondly, the paper writes the media union ICTU has criticised Nedbank for closing the Sekunjalo group’s account.
# Sowetan:
Reports with the death of the legal representative of accused number one in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, further delays will now follow. Muzi Sibiya’s new legal representative will probably recall witnesses.
# And The Citizen:
Writes that the High Court in Pretoria has ordered the Gauteng Department of Education to release the so-called racism report on the Pretoria High School for Girls. The case was struck off the roll yesterday.
FREE STATE:
# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:
Reports about the first court appearance of the four suspects in the farm murder in the Goedehoop district in the Southern Free State. The paper writes the actions of the farmers’ safety network, the police, and security services saved the woman’s life. Her husband was murdered during the attack.
And secondly, it is reported Free State Agriculture warns that every day without rain the circumstances for the industry deteriorate.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Has the same lead as Beeld about the raids in prisons.
Secondly, it is reported that approximately 15.4-million-rand worth of grape-flavoured Panado syrup has been withdrawn from the market by Adcock Ingram.
And finally, there is news about a study by the University of Cape Town indicating that approximately 30-percent of matriculants are actively vaping.
# And Cape Times:
Writes the Labour Court has upheld a decision by a Commissioner of the South African Local Government Bargaining Council confirming that the City of Cape Town committed an unfair labour practice.
And secondly, it is reported that an Eastern Cape lawyer, Du Wayne Stoltz, has been granted bail after appearing in court for the alleged embezzlement of 280-thousand-rand.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Gqeberha:
Reports more than a thousand spaza shops in Nelson Mandela Bay could be closed for good if they miss Friday’s deadline to register their businesses.
And secondly, the paper writes that Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Babalwa Lobishe has kept her promise and ensured that the Cuyler Bridge and the Gibbon and Durban Street intersection in Kariega will be reopened to motorists.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# Daily News in Durban:
Writes that the KwaZulu-Natal government’s decision to extend the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence to 365 days has been welcomed from many quarters.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports the new opposition party in the Namibian legislature, the Independent Patriots for Change, will take legal action over alleged missing ballot papers from the last election.
Secondly, the paper writes that a respected expert in African wildlife management says that Texas’ exotic game industry poses a serious threat to Namibia.
And finally, there is news of a new borehole in the south that provides water for wild horses and a large number of game, including gemsbok and ostriches.