November, 8 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:
Presidency denies receiving letter requesting inquiry into NPA boss
Gains of 1994 mean nothing without land says Malema
And, UCT, students sign peace agreement

The Presidency said yesterday that it had not received a letter from the Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law requesting an inquiry into the fitness of the National Director of Public Prosecutions to hold office.

The civil organisations reportedly gave President Jacob Zuma an ultimatum last week after NPA boss Shaun Abrahams announced the withdrawal of charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

The organisations had given Zuma until 16:00 yesterday, November 7, to provisionally suspend Abrahams and prosecutors Torie Pretorius and Sibongile Mzinyathi.

Presidency spokesperson Bongani Ngqulunga said the Presidency had learnt through media reports that the organisations had apparently written a letter to Zuma regarding the alleged impropriety and unfitness of Abrahams for the office of the NDPP.

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has remained defiant in his call for black South Africans to take back unoccupied land.

He said land would be taken and returned to black people by whatever means necessary.

Malema was addressing thousands of supporters outside the Newcastle Magistrate's Court yesterday. Minutes before that, he had been in the dock on charges of contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act for making similar remarks on June 26 at a Freedom Charter rally in the area.

A commission is being set up by the University of Cape Town to look into protests that rocked the campus earlier this year, as part of a peace agreement between the university and students.

The agreement, between the university’s executive, Student Representative Council candidates, and other student formations, was signed late on Sunday.

It details how the fallout from protests that happened earlier this year will be dealt with and paves a way forward.

The agreement said specific students, who were subjected to disciplinary tribunals relating to the Shackville protests that rocked the campus in February, would be granted clemency.

Students had erected a shack on UCT’s upper campus as a symbol of the struggle students had with housing and financial exclusions.

Also making headlines:
Madonsela says she will not return to the ANC
Fransman launches scathing attack on Mantashe
And, Gordhan, Madonsela honoured at prestigious Mahatma Gandhi awards

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