Morning Newspaper Report
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 26 August 2025:
NATIONAL:
# Business Day:
Reports the Road Freight Association welcomed the announcement by Transport minister Barbara Creecy about Transnet’s process for awarding opportunities to large companies. Creecy announced that operators have been identified as the government tests a third-party access program that, for the first time, breaks Transnet’s monopoly on the network.
# And the Netwerk24 website:
Reports Christopher Mgiba, who was found guilty of the Ohrigstad farm murders, laughed in court at the victims’ families after the verdict.
Then the paper writes EFF leader Julius Malema says the people of Africa must take action themselves against legislation that promotes colonial oppression. Malema was the speaker at the Bar Council in Nigeria.
And finally, it is reported that the Health Finance Council will test the parliamentary process for the adoption of National Health Insurance’s constitutionality in the Constitutional Court.
GAUTENG:
# The Star:
Asks if South Africa is ready for a female president. The paper writes, however, that the country has had female politicians in high-profile roles such as deputy president and speaker of parliament, and Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi briefly served as acting president in 2005 and 2008.
# Sowetan:
Reports minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola says the government does not regret taking a stand against Israel. Relations with the US are poor, and that is not going to change anytime soon.
# And The Citizen:
Writes according to experts, Paul Mashatile and Fikile Mbalula are more focused on the presidency than on improving the image of the ANC.
WESTERN CAPE:
# Die Burger:
Reports minister of Education, Siviwe Gwarube, has warned education departments to be frugal with the budget.
And secondly, the paper reports former minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, saying the ANC has lost its glory and people are starting to feel ashamed of the party.
EASTERN CAPE:
# The Herald in Nelson Mandela Bay:
Reports that crime in Motherwell is now so bad that parents are worried because their children are under siege at school.
And secondly, the paper writes that an investigation is being launched after it appears that the power outages in the Bay are the result of sabotage.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
# The Witness in Pietermaritzburg:
Writes about a local family’s cremation drama.
And reports that Rassie Erasmus has decided to keep the big names for the fight against New Zealand.
And finally from NAMIBIA:
# Republikein in Windhoek:
Reports a group of boys with hockey sticks on roller skates who first played in the streets and later in the hall of Sportklub Windhoek, have now existed for thirty years. The Kamikaze hockey club and cyclists are now taking on the killer Desert Dash to raise money for Ride2Rescue for therapy in nature for vulnerable teenagers from difficult circumstances.
Today is Heroes’ Day in Namibia.