News making headlines in SA

Let's take a look at the week's biggest stories in South African media - as collated by Acumen Media.

South Africans aren't buying the story that businessman Gavin Watson died in an accident - with many of them expressing their suspicions on social media. South African have also taken to social media to respond to the spate of xenophobia, taxi violence and police retaliation in Pretoria.

The ongoing State Capture Inquiry grows more and more intriguing as a witness Ace Magashule's testimony flees for safety concerns. Even though Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane withdrew her appeal at the Constitutional Court, she's still making headlines as there are calls to change the law to remove her from her post.

Details emerging from President Cyril Ramaphosa's email leaks dominated headlines, this week. Eskom finally managed to power up the Medupi Power Station. Negative sentiment regarding the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill remains.

Former eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede gave us all whiplash after she submitted her resignation, last week, but then, this week, she retracted it. And in some sad news, South Africans said goodbye to veteran journalist Ben Said following the news of his death.

South Africans say farewell to eNCA's Ben Said

27 Aug 2019