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Daily Podcast – July 28, 2015

Daily Podcast – July 28, 2015

28th July 2015

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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July 28, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

African National Congess secretary general Gwede Mantashe says government should focus on the crisis in State-owned enterprises.

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South African Foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane says relations with Rwanda are cordial despite both embassies being nearly empty.

And, suspended Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa engineer resigns but faces criminal charges over alleged fraud.

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African National Congess secretary general Gwede Mantashe wants the government to urgently attend to the apparent crises within its State-owned companies, but said the problem must not be focused on individuals.

"The State-owned companies remain critical economic levers of the developmental state," he told reporters in Johannesburg. "They must be optimally used to  improve economic infrastructure and increase economic growth,” said Mantashe.

Manatashe said the issues in the state-owned companies would not be sorted out by dealing with personalities because they were not individuals.

He did not elaborate on what the ANC believed were the problems within state-owned companies and noted that not all of these companies were in trouble.

 

The South African government insisted on Monday that relations with Rwanda were now “cordial” even though the two countries had not yet returned the 10 diplomats which were expelled by both sides over a year ago.

South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said that relations were cordial because both ambassadors remained at their posts in their respective embassies.

In May last year South Africa expelled three Rwandan diplomats and one Burundian diplomat whom it linked to a raid on exiled Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa’s Johannesburg home.
Rwanda retaliated by kicking out six South African envoys from Kigali.

This left just the two ambassadors as the sole diplomatic representatives of their countries in Kigali and Pretoria.

 

State-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (or PRASA) on Monday confirmed it had received an official resignation letter from its rail division’s former head of engineering services Daniel Mtimkulu.

This followed Mtimkulu being charged with gross dishonesty and fraudulent misrepresentation, with PRASA alleging that he had failed to produce engineering and PhD qualifications, which he claimed to possess.

As part of PRASA’s governance protocols, a criminal case of fraud was opened against him on July 18, citing the misrepresentation of his qualifications.

The agency earlier this month suspended Mtimkulu following an internal enquiry instituted by PRASA Rail CEO Mosenngwa Mofi into his academic qualifications.

Mtimkulu’s suspension followed a day after PRASA’s board announced that former CEO Lucky Montana had left the organisation, five months prior to his contract coming to an end.

 

Also making headlines:

The Economic Freedom Fighters celebrated its second birthday this weekend and analysts have different views on how it has impacted the political scene. 

A US court rejects the appeal of apartheid lawsuits against Ford and IBM.

Former international relations minister Ebrahim Ebrahim has been awarded the Order of Civil Merit by the King Felipe VI of Spain.

And, Congo Republic's opposition parties have convened an Alternative National Forum in rejection of a government-sponsored conference that opens the door to President Denis Sassou Nguesso seeking a third term next year.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.

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