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Daily Podcast – January 27, 2016

Daily Podcast – January 27, 2016

27th January 2016

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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January 27, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Mmusi Maimane leads jobs march in Johannesburg

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Typhoid outbreak hits Zimbabwe’s capital

And, Outa slams a statement that says it does not oppose e-tolls.

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DA leader Mmusi Maimane will today lead a jobs march through the Johannesburg central business district, his party said in a statement.

The march will begin at the Westgate Transport Hub, Corner of Anderson Street and Pat Mbatha Busway.

The DA said: “South Africans were bearing the brunt of a leaderless economy, in which unemployment was growing day by day”.

Yesterday the DA’s jobs billboard in Johannesburg was vandalised but the party said it won’t be destructed by the act of desperation.

The DA said since 2009, close to two-million South Africans had joined the ranks of the jobless.

 

Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare has been rocked by a Typhoid outbreak and authorities have deployed medical experts to determine the magnitude of the spread of the disease.

A report in Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald newspaper yesterday said since last Friday health authorities in that country had confirmed three cases in Glen Norah, two in Hopley and one in Hatfield.

In South Africa, fresh cases of Typhoid were reported and indications were that at least one of the patients had recently travelled to Zimbabwe.

The Gauteng Department of Health said on Tuesday that two new cases of Typhoid fever had been reported at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, in the Tshwane district.

 

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (or Outa) said it was "astonished and incensed" by acting chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport Leonard Ramatlakane's assertion that the civil rights body was not opposed to Gauteng's e-tolls.

Ramatlakane said in a statement yesterday that Outa "was not opposed to e-tolling as people needed to pay in order to have good road infrastructure".

In reaction to this, the civil rights body said yesterday that it would lodge a formal complaint with the chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport as well as the Parliamentary Ethics Committee, seeking an apology and "retraction of elements within their misleading statement".


Also making headlines:

A proposed new expropriation law is nearing completion, with MPs putting the final touches to a key element of the government's land reform programme.

The United Nations has urged South Africa to introduce controls on short-term capital movements in and out of the country, to prevent further large depreciations of the rand.

And, The DA will lay criminal charges against Beaufort West mayor Truman Prince accusing him of "blatant" corruption.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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