Morning Newspaper Report

The headlines of the leading newspapers on 28 February 2024:

NATIONAL:

# Business Day:

Reports the South African Revenue Service continues its civil claim of 4.9-billion-rand against Sasfin. It concerns SARS’ alleged inability to collect taxes and penalties from former foreign exchange clients of the bank who were involved in a syndicate.

GAUTENG:

# Beeld:

Firstly, reports on a father and son from Botswana who were bitten by the same Mozambican spitting cobra when the father wanted to see why the child was crying. Lennie Vermeulen and the 22-month-old Lex are now in the Mediclinic Kloof Hospital in Pretoria.

Then the paper writes tickets for the Boks’ home Tests against Ireland, Portugal, and Argentina will be available from next month.

And finally, there is a snippet about the X account of the late actor Matthew Perry, which was taken over by hackers.

# The Star and Pretoria News:

Writes about the concerns about the loss of jobs in the mining industry.

And reports the minister of Police, Bheki Cele requested the judicial bench to stop granting bail.

# Sowetan:

Reports the community of Dobsonville in Soweto is shocked about the murder of a beloved local medical doctor, Michael Isabelle, who was shot dead in his office.

# And The Citizen:

Writes despite increased police visibility, a blue light gang is in control of the N3 at Heidelberg. Motorists are robbed and in some cases kidnapped.

FREE STATE:

# Volksblad in Bloemfontein:

Reports while the livestock thefts in the Eastern Free State are drastically increasing, the police have decided to downsize two of its livestock theft units in Heilbron and Vrede.

And secondly, there is news about a farmer from Edenburg, Ernst van Rooyen, whose leap-year bride Adrie Pritchard has decided to marry him.

WESTERN CAPE:

# Die Burger:

Leads with a candid interview with the father of missing six-year-old Joslin Smith. Jose Emke says if Joslin is dead and her mother, Kelly knows what happened, he will insist that she be charged with murder.

And secondly, the paper writes the police are investigating after the rear window of a Maserati in a parking lot in Groot-Brakrivier was shot out with a marble.

# And Cape Times:

Writes the Cape Town municipality is accused of delaying the resettlement of the people Prasa evicted from its land in Wynberg.

And reports judge Mandisa Maya will possibly take over from judge Zondo as Chief Judge in September.

EASTERN CAPE:

# The Herald in Gqeberha:

Reports there was a heated exchange of words between council members with the restructuring of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro’s budget. Important projects for some of the city’s poorest areas have been pushed aside.

And secondly, the paper writes a woman from Gqeberha whose skin treatments allegedly left several clients with swollen faces is being investigated after she was accused of posing as a medical practitioner.

KWAZULU-NATAL:

# Daily News in Durban:

Writes the state’s case in the Gumede fraud case has been stymied by further obstacles and setbacks.

And finally from NAMIBIA:

# Republikein in Windhoek:

Reports the trauma for babies lying unnursed in a hospital for months is immense.

And writes Namibia’s new first lady, Sustjie Mbumba has a heart for people.