August 2, 2013.
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

Gauteng obtains clean audits for the 2012/13 financial year.

Britain is 'concerned' about the way Zimbabwe’s elections were organised.

And, Egypt's rulers call on pro-Mursi protesters to end their camps.

Gauteng has achieved eight clean audits and 23 unqualified audits for the 2012/13 financial year, premier Nomvula Mokonyane said on Thursday.

The clean audits were obtained in the office of the premier; provincial legislature; provincial treasury;  social development;  and sport, arts, culture and recreation.

Three provincial entities also received clean audits. They were the Gauteng partnership fund, the Gauteng fund project office, and the Gautrain management agency. The improved results were attributed to strengthened leadership and stabilised management in the province, strengthened capacity in strategic planning, financial management, and other key areas.

Mokonyane said in a statement that this was an impressive improvement on the previous year's results, which takes Gauteng a step closer to achieving its target of 100% clean audits by 2014.

Britain said on Thursday it was concerned that Zimbabwe hadn’t enacted important electoral reform before Wednesday's vote in the former British colony as well as by reports that large numbers of voters had been turned away.

A spokesperson for the British Foreign Office said that  "any judgement on the credibility of elections would need to take those factors into account.

Egypt's army-backed government on Thursday urged supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi to abandon their Cairo protest camps, promising them a safe exit if they gave up without a fight.

The appeal, made by Interior Ministry spokesperson Hany Abdel Latif on state television, followed the government's warning on Wednesday that it was ready to take action to end two weeks of sit-in protests by thousands of Mursi supporters at two sites.

Latif said that if protesters left the sites peacefully, they would be guaranteed a safe exit, adding there was no specified date, and that the ministry would continue to study the situation on the ground.

Egypt is now more polarised than at any time since the US-backed autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, starting off a political transition fraught with unrest.

Also making headlines:

Judge Francis Legodi resigns from the commission probing the multi-billion rand arms deal.

Telkom implements its three-year wage agreement for defined bargaining unit employees across all unions, including Solidarity.

The Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says the economic emancipation movement won’t be moved from its policy of land grabs.

And, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has acknowledged a call by NGOs and the private sector to “take the lead” on pertinent issues in the environmental sector.

That's a roundup of news making headlines today.