December 29, 2025 – South Africa Headlines

Story gist: The South African published the Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results for the draws on Sunday, 28 December 2025.

Bias summary: Center outlets like The South African framed the story with a neutral, factual headline focused on the lottery results. Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage entirely, showing no partisan interest in routine South African lottery announcements and leaving those perspectives absent.

Story gist: A building collapsed in Soweto, killing three people. Public Works Minister Macpherson ordered an investigation.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets absent, leaving progressive critiques or conservative angles on accountability unrepresented. Center outlet Daily Maverick frames neutrally, emphasizing Minister Macpherson’s probe order post-collapse, focusing on official response and facts without blame, speculation, or political framing.

Story gist: A video surfaced showing young children drinking alcohol in Eastern Cape, South Africa, prompting public outrage. The Eastern Cape social development department launched an investigation.

Bias summary: No left- or right-leaning outlets covered the story, leaving progressive child protection emphases and conservative family values perspectives absent. The sole center outlet, The Citizen, framed related alcohol issues via festive spending data, emphasizing economic trends over the child incident, outrage, or investigation, with a neutral consumer focus.

Story gist: Makhanda police launched an investigation after a 16-year-old girl’s body was found murdered in Joza.

Bias summary: Left-leaning IOL emphasizes victim details (16-year-old girl, Joza location) and formal ‘police launch investigation after murdered,’ focusing on procedural response. Center outlet theherald.co.za uses action-oriented ‘hunt killer’ and ‘teen’s body,’ implying urgency without specifics. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting any conservative framing like crime wave critiques or law enforcement support.

Story gist: Police in Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, arrested dozens of motorists, including a 74-year-old, during a drunk driving blitz. Arrests included charges for drunk driving and attempting to bribe traffic officers.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting any progressive critique of enforcement tactics or conservative emphasis on law-and-order successes. Center outlets framed the event positively as a record number of arrests for drunk driving and bribery, highlighting road safety via Arrive Alive quotes and enforcement effectiveness.