August 28, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

President Jacob Zuma and the South African judiciary call for mutual respect.

A boat packed with migrants sinks off Libya and up to 200 people are feared to be dead.

And, Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi is mired in a new mine rights disagreement.

A meeting between the national executive and the country’s top judges held on Thursday was a practical step towards strengthening democracy in South Africa.

President Jacob Zuma said the meeting was characterised by a frank and cordial exchange of views conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

The two delegations raised their concerns on a number of issues including statements made in the public domain from both sides which may have brought into question the integrity of both the national executive and the judiciary.

Zuma said the meeting had agreed “to exercise care and caution with regard to public statements and pronouncements criticising one another”.

A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 people might have died.   

A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there had been around 400 people on board. Many appeared to have been trapped in the hold when it capsized.  

The Libyan coast guard rescued around 201, of which 147 were brought to a detention facility for illegal migrants in Sabratha, west of Tripoli.

The migrants on board had been from sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Syria, Morocco and Bangladesh.

Libya has turned into a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to make it to Europe.

Aquila Resources‚ a subsidiary of China’s state-owned Baosteel‚ which has had a long-running battle with the Department of Mineral Resources over a manganese deposit‚ is poised to approach the courts to seek a judicial review if a resolution is not reached.

If the legal challenge was launched‚ it would be the third major case brought against the department this year.

An application on the interpretation of the empowerment ownership clause in the Mining Charter has been lodged and another wants the Mining Charters to be set aside.

After a 20-month wait‚ Aquila was notified last month by Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi in a brief letter that its mining right application over the Gravenhage manganese deposit in the Northern Cape was rejected and that its prospecting right had been rescinded.

Also making headlines:

Johannesburg’s digital precinct aims to nurture a new generation of technology entrepreneurs.

Suspected Nigerian Boko Haram militants raided a village in southern Niger, killing three people, including a soldier.

And, Zimbabwean Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern over food imports, saying they are draining the country's already strained resources.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.