July, 27 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:

Police minister to brief media on political killings
IFP leader urges voters to save South Africa from corruption
And, Fransman in court bid to get his job back

Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko is expected to brief media today on the work of the task team which is probing recent politically-motivated killings.

Several candidates, especially of the African National Congress, have been murdered in the past few months. At least 12 murders have taken place in KwaZulu-Natal.

An ANC member was shot and killed outside the Tshwane Events Centre in June. An ANC candidate councillor in Newcastle was shot dead in front of her husband and children earlier this month.

On Saturday, people wearing ANC T-shirts killed two Inkatha Freedom Party members in uMtshezi, KwaZulu-Natal.
National Freedom Party member Anna Madonsela was stabbed to death in Newcastle last week.

Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi urged voters yesterday in KwaZulu-Natal’s capital city of Pietermaritzburg to save the country from corruption by voting for the IFP.

Buthelezi, who visited the city’s taxi ranks to meet members of the public, urged Pietermaritzburg voters to show their faith in his leadership by voting for the IFP.

He said voting for the African National Congress would drag South Africa deeper into trouble.

He lamented the slow economic growth and singled out the ANC as one of the primary reasons for the troubles witnessed in the country.

Marius Fransman will bring an application in the Western Cape High Court today in a bid to get back his job as the African National Congress’s provincial leader.

Fransman faced disciplinary proceedings after he was accused of sexually harassing 21-year-old Louisa Wynand while they were travelling to the party's January 8 celebrations in Rustenburg.

The respondents are ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe and the party’s integrity committee deputy chair Frene Ginwala. It is not the ANC, his attorney Ashley Meyer said on Tuesday.

Fransman wanted the court to find that refusing to allow him to take up his position in the province contravened the ruling party’s constitution.

The ANC’s head of elections, Nomvula Mokonyane, said last week that Fransman was back in his job. On Monday, Mantashe insisted that Fransman had not been reinstated.

Also making headlines:
IEC to unveil national results centre
UN warns South Sudan leader Kiir over Machar replacement
And, SABC would be foolish to oppose our case says union for 3 axed journalists

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