June 10, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Numsa's 'urgent application' to be able to appeal its expulsion from Cosatu dismissed.

Expelled Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warns the union federation will change completely following recent developments.

And, ‘Third-termism’ may be a new cancer eating at the heart of Africa’s democracy.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa's (or Numsa’s) urgent application to be able to appeal its expulsion from Cosatu at the federation's Special National Congress (or SNC) in July has been thrown out of the High Court in Johannesburg.

Judge Mandla Mbongwe said the matter was not urgent.

The matter was struck off the roll for lack of urgency and Numsa was ordered to pay the costs in respect of the respondent including the cost of two counsels.

Numsa had tried to secure an urgent application to be allowed to attend the Congress of South African Trade Union's SNC on July 13 and July 14, and for the SNC to be declared as having the powers to hear its appeal against its expulsion last November.

Expelled Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warned that the union federation would change completely after the High Court in Johannesburg dismissed an application by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (or Numsa) to appeal its expulsion at Cosatu's Special National Congress (or SNC) next month.

Vavi was speaking outside the court after Judge Mandla Mbongwe ruled that Numsa's application to be allowed to attend Cosatu's SNC in July was not urgent.

'They have said so in public that they want to dismantle the old Cosatu as we have known it - they want a new federation.''

Meanwhile, Cosatu's credentials process begins on Wednesday.

Numsa had hoped to be allowed back into the fold at the SNC to state its case, and that the case of Vavi's expulsion also be heard.

Attempts by African leaders to circumvent constitutional term limits so they could stay in power longer had become a major source of conflict on the continent, analysts said on Tuesday.

These attempts to cling to power which have been dubbed “third-termism” had become the “new coups” on the continent, a seminar on the margins of this week’s African Union (or AU) summit in Sandton heard.

The summit was expected to address the crisis in Burundi, provoked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement in April that he would run for a third term, despite the two-term limit in the country’s Constitution. Similar attempts by other leaders were threatening stability in a few other countries.

Institute for Security Studies senior researcher David Zounmenou said that while Africa had made significant progress towards stability and democracy since independence, African leaders did not hold elections to lose, with the use of whatever instruments were needed to win employed, including manipulating electoral commissions and voters rolls.

Also making headlines:

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema called Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler Barnard a 'white madam' after she tweeted a question about his whereabouts in Parliament.
President Jacob Zuma engages youth organisations over policy and governance.

And, The United Nations secretary general's special envoy to the Sahel Hiroute Guebre Sallassie said healthcare and jobs for women in the arid region of Africa could play an important part in rolling back poverty in one of the world's most underdeveloped areas.

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