July 23, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

The African National Congress' Cedric Frolick  say the firepool is also a recreational facility at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home.       

Multiple bomb blasts kill at least 29 people in the Nigerian city of Gombe.

And, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is confident that six million jobs by 2019 is attainable. 

The much talked about "firepool" at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home is also a "recreational facility", the African National Congress' Cedric Frolick said after inspecting the multi-million rand compound.

"What we saw in front of us is a pool... a pool is a pool," he told journalists after an inspection by parliament's ad hoc committee on Nkandla. 

When pressed for more information on the so-called firepool,  Frolick said it was also a recreational facility but then he quickly added that it was a water resource that could be utilised to fight fires.

He described the visit to Nkandla as an "eye opener" which "basically confirms" the findings of the previous ad hoc committee that there was a gross inflation of prices in the construction of the compound.

He revealed that what he saw at Nkandla was not worth the R200-million plus that was claimed to be spent, saying the people responsible for that must be held accountable... in line with the Special Investigating Unit report.

He said disciplinary action as well as criminal prosecutions must be pursued against individual contractors and any officials of public works found to have unduly benefited from the upgrades.

At least 29 people died and 60 were wounded in multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday evening.

There was no immediate claim for the bombings but they bore the hallmarks of Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram. At least 50 people died in two bombings at a market in the same city last Friday.

The first bomb, which exploded around 7 p.m. was detonated by a suspected suicide bomber at a mosque at Dadin Kowa motorpark as people gathered to pray.

A second bomb went off at Nasarawo junction near the same bus station, where people were selling vegetables.

Police could not give a death toll yet but confirmed that there were blasts in both areas about an hour apart.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is confident that the target of reaching six-million jobs by 2019 is attainable after visiting a public employment programme in Orange Farm yesterday.
He said government would "reach it and exceed it".

Ramaphosa inspected the employment programme at the Orange Farm Skills Centre, where he spoke to workers.

The visit was part of the extended public works programme.

Ramaphosa was accompanied by Gauteng Premier David Makhura, Co-operative Governance Minister Pravin Gordhan, Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu and Deputy Public Works Minister Jeremy Cronin on the inspection.

Also making headlines:

The office of the public protector said the release of the report into maladministration at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa has been postponed.

Government believes that the marine transport and manufacturing sector can contribute up to R23-billion to the national gross domestic product by 2019.

And, US President Barack Obama will land in Kenya with a mission to strengthen US security and economic ties, but his personal connection to his father's birthplace will dominate a trip that Kenyans view as “a native son returning home”.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.