June 12, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesurg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nomusa Dube-Ncube says councillors who don't pay their bills will face disciplinary action.

AU summit is abuzz over whether Sudan President Omar al-Bashir will attend as rights group seeks arrest warrant.

And, ANC is set for a showdown as Gauteng chair Paul Mashatile rips into Nkandla report.

Councillors who owe debts to municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal risk losing their jobs.

This was a warning issued by the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nomusa Dube-Ncube‚ to municipal mayors and managers during the opening session of the Muni-Mec at Coastlands in Durban‚ her office said in a statement.

The Muni-Mec is an intergovernmental body that meets quarterly to analyse the state of local government and is made up of the MEC and the municipal mayors and municipal managers in the province.

In her address Dube-Ncube said that councillors have the responsibility to lead by example by ensuring that they pay their bills on time every month.

“What we are calling for is not something that is unreasonable as the Municipal Systems and Structures Act makes provision for disciplinary steps to be taken against councillors who do not pay for municipal services,” she said.

Dube-Ncube said they can even be fired from their positions‚ as the position of being a councillor is one that goes with the responsibility of being a role model.

She said her department is currently working with municipalities to identify the councillors whose municipal accounts are in arrears.

A South African human rights organisation is preparing to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, as they suspect he could arrive in South Africa for the twenty-fifth African Union (or AU) summit taking place in Johannesburg this week.

Executive director of Johannesburg-based Southern Africa Litigation Centre Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh said it had received information from various sources that Bashir was due to arrive in SA on Saturday.

He said they were trying to confirm information and would prepare an urgent application to have him arrested.

Bashir was a fugitive from the International Criminal Court (or ICC) which has issued a warrant for his arrest after indicting him for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.

As a member of the ICC, South Africa is obliged to arrest him if he sets foot in the country and has twice before threatened to do that when Bashir was expected in the country for President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration in 2009 and for the Fifa World Cup in 2010.

The African National Congress (or ANC) leadership is set for a showdown as the party's Gauteng chair‚ Paul Mashatile‚ became the highest-profile member to distance himself from Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's report on Nkandla.

The report found that the Nkandla swimming pool‚ visitors centre‚ cattle kraal and chicken run were all vital security features and that‚ contrary to the report of public protector Thuli Madonsela‚ President Jacob Zuma did not have to pay back any money.

Nhleko also said that the upgrade of the residence was incomplete and more money would have to be spent. Mashatile said that this was not the ANC position.

His comments draws a line between the party and the executive and throws down the gauntlet to the ANC leadership to make a decision about whether or not the party supports the report's recommendations.

His comments directly contradict those of the party's chief whip in Parliament‚ Stone Sizani.

Also making headlines:

Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula warns against ill-discipline in the army.

Police have made no arrests following the shooting and wounding of two Eskom workers at the Medupi construction site, in Limpopo, yesterday.

Eskom CEO Brian Molefe says the utility has 6 000 MW at risk of breakdown.

When her nonrenewable seven-year term of office expires in October 2016‚ Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madosela hopes to leave behind an office that would have improved how government treats its people.

And, African Union commission on social affairs said health workers returning from West Africa were facing stigmatisation associated with the Ebola virus.

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