June 2, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

The Nkandla matter may go to court.

Burundi says it’s open to postponing the upcoming elections.

And, Oxfam International says corporations deprive Africa of $11-billion yearly in taxes.

If President Jacob Zuma fails to implement the remedial action the Public Protector suggested in her report on his private home in Nkandla, the matter might be taken to court, Thuli Madonsela said on Monday.

Madonsela encouraged Zuma to approach the courts himself to settle the matter once and for all.

She said the best authority to take this matter to court would be the President himself to seek advice on what he should do as well as to verify the powers of the Public Protector.

She said that would ultimately improve Zuma's relationship with the Public Protector's office, adding that it would assist him to have a proper relationship with her office during her term and long after she left.

Madonsela said the Public Protector’s office was supposed to assist Zuma in so far as the enforcement of the Executive Ethics Act is concerned.

Burundi's government has held out the possibility of a postponement of elections which have led to weeks of protests and bloodshed.

President Pierre Nkurunziza said in April he would run for another term in a June 26 vote. More than 20 people have been killed by security forces in protests decrying his move as a violation of the constitution.

Parliamentary and local council elections were also slated for June 5.

A summit of leaders of the East African Community comprising Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma called for a postponement of the elections for at least a month and a half.

Presidential spokesperson Gervais Abayeho said the electoral commission was looking into the request and would advise the government.

Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term unleashed Burundi's worst political crisis since an ethnically-driven civil war ended in 2005.

Oxfam International says multinational companies deprive African governments of $11-billion in taxes each year. The group suggets that G7 world leaders should set up a new global body to regulate corporate taxation.

The anti-poverty group said in a report on Africa that by shifting profits overseas to lower tax regimes, companies legally avoid paying taxes to the African countries where they generate revenues. This deprives governments of money they desperately need for development.

Oxfam suggests that when leaders of the G7 major industrialised countries meet in Germany on June 7 to 8 to discuss how to support economic growth in Africa, a vital component of their talks should be comprehensive reform of the global tax system.

Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima said an international body similar to the World Trade Organisation could represent all countries' interests and mediate disputes among taxation regimes.

Also making headlines:

A senior executive at Russia’s Rosatom says the company would be open to participating in the financing of South Africa’s nuclear build programme should it be selected as the country’s nuclear energy strategic partner. 

South Africa’s new immigration measures that came into effect on Monday, which included requiring adults travelling with children to carry unabridged birth certificates, was concerning to the International Air Transport Association.

Egypt says it has prevented a Muslim Brotherhood plot against the state, one day before Mohamed Mursi’s sentencing.

Two Eskom contractors died on Monday afternoon after a pipe burst and produced high pressure steam at the Grootvlei Power Station in Mpumalanga.

And, migrant children fleeing poverty in Africa face labour and sex exploitation in Italy.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.