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Daily Podcast – February 03, 2016

Daily Podcast – February 03, 2016

3rd February 2016

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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February 03, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Zuma tells Concourt that he will pay back the Nkandla money.

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Funding falls short for task force to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram

And, Gauteng Premier David Makhura announces cabinet reshuffle.

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President Jacob Zuma has proposed that the Constitutional Court appoint the auditor general and minister of finance to determine how much he should pay for certain upgrades to his Nkandla home.

Through his lawyers, the president proposed that designated appointees  be appointed within 30 days of date of order to determine the reasonable portion of the reasonable cost of those features of the Nkandla upgrade project not reasonably related to security.

The non-security upgrades Zuma was prepared to pay for were the visitors' centre, the amphitheatre, the cattle kraal, chicken run and the swimming pool.

In her report, entitled Secure in Comfort, Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela recommended that Zuma pay back a reasonable portion of the R246-million spent on upgrades to his Nkandla homestead not related to security.

 

Funding for a multinational force to combat Boko Haram's deadly Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa remains well short of its target, an African Union (or AU) official said yesterday.

So far donors, including Nigeria, Switzerland and France, had pledged about $250-million to fund the 8 700-strong regional force, the AU's Peace and Security Council said after a meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss funding.

The talks followed the militia's latest attack, which killed at least 65 people in northeast Nigeria on Saturday.

Communications officer for the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Orlando Bama said the $250-million included both previous pledges and those recently made.

Boko Haram had killed thousands of people and driven more than 2-million people from their homes during its six-year insurgency.

 

Gauteng ANC chairperson and MP Paul Mashatile has been appointed MEC for Human Settlements, provincial Premier David Makhura announced yesterday.

Makhura told reporters that bringing Mashatile back to Gauteng would help strengthen the ANC at provincial government.

Mashatile will replace Jacob Mamabolo, who had been appointed Infrastructure Development MEC.

Mashatile was presently an MP, and had previously served as Gauteng premier, as Deputy Minister of Finance and as Arts and Culture Minister.

Nandi Mayathula-Khoza was moved from Infrastructure Development to become Social Development MEC.

Makhura said Molebatsi Bopape was no longer part of Team Gauteng. The investigation into allegations of misconduct, maladministration and corruption in the provincial department of sport, arts, culture and recreation under the control of MEC Bopape were currently underway.

Mashatile would resign from Parliament today and would take up his new portfolio within two days.

Also making headlines:

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was consulting with her legal team before issuing a response to President Jacob Zuma’s proposal to pay back some of the money spent on the upgrades at his Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal.

And, FW de Klerk said white South Africans should continue to try and understand and acknowledge the pain and humiliation that apartheid caused black, coloured and Indian people.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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