December 13, 2012.
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

A debate panel hears that the continuation of unemployment in South Africa is an invitation for anarchy.

Political analyst Steve Friedman says President Jacob Zuma will win the elections in Mangaung despite Kgalema Motlanthe’s nomination acceptance.

And, a US official says Sudan has carried out little of the agreed Darfur peace deal.

A debate panel heard in Johannesburg on Wednesday night that if unemployment continues, South Africa is inviting anarchy into the country.

President of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry Lawrence Mavundla said government needed to ensure that poor people lived properly by allowing them economic participation. He was one of four experts speaking at Constitution Hill on constitutionalism, redress and reconciliation.

Mavundla believed that government had the same policies it had in the past during apartheid and that this needed to change, as South Africans weren’t living according to the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

He also said South Africa could not carry on this way and that equality was needed to bridge the gap between salaries paid to directors, compared with salaries paid to workers.

Meanwhile, political analyst Steven Friedman said on Wednesday night that Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's acceptance of a nomination to the African National Congress' top seat won’t change who will win or lose the leadership challenge.

He explained that the ANC's president was chosen by the branches and that the branches had overwhelmingly voted for President Zuma, of which Motlanthe was very well aware.

Friedman said that because there is now a contested election, it becomes possible that people at Mangaung will question whether certain delegates or delegations are allowed to be there, which the ANC was aiming to avoid by having an uncontested election.

He said that unless hundreds of delegates at the party's elective conference ignored what their branches had decided, Zuma would be re-elected as president.

A peace deal for Sudan's Darfur region has been hindered by a lack of funding, the failure to disarm militias, attacks on peacekeepers and other problems. This comes nearly a year and a half after the deal was signed.

Last year, the government signed a Qatar-brokered peace deal with the Liberation and Justice Movement, an umbrella of smaller rebel factions, but the main rebels refused to join.

US Special Advisor for Darfur Dane Smith said during his last trip to the region that implementation of the Doha agreement had faltered.

He said the biggest disappointment was that there is very limited implementation, particularly of those provisions that bring tangible benefits to the internally displaced people and refugees.

Also making headlines:

Opposition party Democratic Alliance declares that Parliament has failed.

South Africa opens a new inquiry into former Mozambican President Samora Machel’s air crash.

And, the African Union and West African regional bloc condemns the army’s interference in Mali's politics.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.