December 14, 2012.
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

Reports suggest that former President Nelson Mandela is likely to be discharged from hospital today.

A Court bid to scrap e-tolling fails with the Congress of South African Trade Unions still urging motorists not to buy e-tags

And, key policy discussions are on the cards for Mangaung.

According to a report, former President Nelson Mandela is likely to be released from a private Pretoria medical facility today, after being hospitalised for the last six days.

A news agency reported that there were plans to move the 94-year-old from the facility to his Houghton home on Thursday but doctors decided to keep him for one more night.

Local and international media have been camped outside the Military 1 Hospital in Pretoria, where it was believed he was receiving treatment, since news of his hospitalisation last Saturday.

Several staff members from the un-disclosed hospital have confirmed that he has received several visitors (including) former president Thabo Mbeki, Madiba's wife Graca Machel, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions has urged Gauteng road users not to buy e-tags after the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application to scrap e-tolls.

Spokesperson Patrick Craven expressed disappointed at the judgment and said Cosatu would approach Parliament and continue its mass action.

On Thursday, Judge Louis Vorster found the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project was lawful and dismissed an application by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (or Outa) to have e-tolls on Gauteng's highways set aside. He said the application couldn’t succeed and ordered Outa to pay costs.

Outa's chairperson Wayne Duvenage said the alliance was still unsure whether to appeal the ruling or take the matter to a higher court.

Economic transformation, organisational renewal and strategy as well as tactics will be among the key policy discussions at the African National Congress conference in Mangaung, staring this weekend.

The ANC’s vision is to build an economy in which the state, private capital, co-operatives and other forms of social ownership complement each other to eliminate poverty and foster economic growth.

In recommendations from its policy conference in June, the party agreed that it should "re-assert the objective of transforming the racial character of South African capital" given the problems of broad-based black economic empowerment. It also rejected "wholesale nationalisation" in favour of "strategic nationalisation", and called for "transformative state intervention in the economy".

At Mangaung, the party would also discuss the issue of nationalisation of the mines. This could take many forms, one of which is state ownership, and includes the more strategic use of existing state-owned companies, and strategic nationalisation. The proposed job-seekers grant will also be up for discussion.

Also making headlines:

Webber Wentzel’s Africa mining head Peter Leon says Marikana has re-inflicted the 1970s stagflation on the South African economy.

Japan is keen to up trade and investment stakes at upcoming Africa gathering.

And analysts predict strained relations within the ANC should both President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe retain their positions in the party.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.