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29th April 2014

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April 29, 2014
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

The probe into the Nkandla scandal has been referred for the next parliament.

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Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa chairperson Pansy Tlakula’s resignation call heads to court.

And, election violence flares in South Africa’s platinum belt.

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A motion by the African National Congress to refer the investigation into President Jacob Zuma's response to the Public Protector's report on Nkandla to the next Parliament was passed on Monday.

ANC whip Doris Dlakude said the ruling party wanted to do justice to this matter, saying there was no reason not to refer the matter to the fifth Parliament.

The motion was passed with seven votes to three, with opposition parties strongly objecting to the move.

Dlakude accused opposition parties of having a pre-meditated outcome before the committee had even started deliberations. She insisted that the ANC would stick to its motion in order to conduct a thorough job.
 

The Electoral Court, sitting in the High Court in Johannesburg, will today hear an application brought by opposition parties to force Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (or IEC) chairperson Pansy Tlakula to resign.

This follows a forensic investigation by the National Treasury on the procurement of the IEC's Riverside Office Park building in Centurion, Pretoria.

The probe found the process was neither fair, transparent, nor cost-effective. It found Tlakula did not give guidance or formally inform various people what was expected of them in the process.

The United Democratic Movement, the African Christian Democratic Party, the Congress of the People, Agang SA, and the Economic Freedom Fighters were calling for her to resign.

Meanwhile, Tlakula maintained that she was not accused of corruption in the report.

 

Police used water cannons and stun grenades to disperse rioters in South Africa's strike-hit platinum belt on the weekend after a government minister was attacked by rock-throwing protesters while campaigning for the May 7 elections.

Police spokesperson Thulani Ngubane said a community hall, municipal centre and the house of a councillor for the ruling African National Congress were burnt down.

Ngubane wouldn’t identify the rioters but local media and union leaders said the minister had been attacked by members of the striking Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (or Amcu).

Ngubane confirmed sports minister Fikile Mbalula had to be whisked away under police protection after he and the ANC activists he was campaigning with were confronted by a crowd in the shanty town of Freedom Park, northwest of Johannesburg.

It was after this that the protest erupted into a full-scale riot, Ngubane said.

Amcu officials could not be immediately reached for comment on the outbreak of violence.
 


Also making headlines:

International mediators have called on South Sudan's rebel leader to meet his rival, President Salva Kiir, to prevent an ethnic-fuelled conflict turning into a civil war or genocide.

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in for a fourth term on Monday after he easily won an election that opponents dismissed as unfair and returned to power for another five years.

And, officials say at least 22 people, including 15 local chiefs and three members of staff of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, were killed in an attack on a town in Central African Republic.


That's a roundup of news making headlines today.

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