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Daily Podcast – February 11, 2016

Daily Podcast – February 11, 2016

11th February 2016

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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February 11, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Cloud hangs over Zuma ahead of Sona.

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Zimbabwean Deputy President rejects factionalism in Zanu-PF.

And, AA slams Sanral’s e-toll move.

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President Jacob Zuma will deliver his State of the Nation address (or Sona) today under a cloud, after the Constitutional Court was asked to find that he violated the Constitution and his oath of office.

Political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi said Zuma was much weaker than he was the day before he fired [Finance Minister Nhlanhla] Nene.
Matshiqi said the Constitutional court public humiliation didn’t help either.

Judgment was reserved in the application by the EFF and DA to the ConCourt for an order that Zuma repay some of the R246-million spent on his home in Nkandla.

In an about-turn last week, Zuma approached the ConCourt to ask that it order the Auditor General and finance minister to determine how much he owed for the non-security upgrades to Nkandla.

 

Zimbabwean Deputy President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rejected claims that there are factions within the ruling Zanu-PF party.

Mnangagwa is tipped as the successor to 91 year old President Robert Mugabe, when he eventually leaves office.

However, a group of Young Turks known as Generation 40, allegedly led by Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo, was against his ascendancy to the presidency.

G40 was reportedly backing First Lady Grace Mugabe to take over from her nonagenarian husband.

 

The Automobile Association (or AA) said that it was disappointed that the South African National Roads Agency (or Sanral) had decided to go the legal route before resolving the e-toll billing problems.

The AA said in an attempt to force Gauteng road users to pay their fees on the controversial tolling system, Sanral appointed a debt-collection agency to manage this process for them. 

Sanral had been sending an sms to an undisclosed number of Gauteng road users threatening them with legal action if they fail to pay their outstanding e-toll balances.

The AA warned that the sms and debt collection added “yet another layer to the costs of collection, which were already unnecessarily high.

 

Also making headlines:
The rand weakened slightly to R15.92 at 09:55 ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation speech today, which will be watched closely by local investors hoping for a sign that the country can stave off a credit rating downgrade to “junk status”.

And, a senior US official warned that a political crisis was growing in Democratic Republic of Congo over the possibility that President Joseph Kabila might seek a third term in office.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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