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

Eight Cosatu affiliates have pledged not to participate in the federation's meetings until Numsa is reinstated.

Thousands of people in Cameroon's capital protest against Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgency. 

And, the Democratic Alliance demands answers over the apparent inaction of Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant following a forensic audit report on Nedlac.

Eight affiliates of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (or Cosatu) have pledged not to participate in the federation's meetings until the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (or Numsa) is reinstated.

They have also written a letter to the African National Congress (or ANC) task team, which was still seeking to mediate in Cosatu.

Numsa was expelled from Cosatu in November for contravening the federations constitution.

The expulsion was based on resolutions taken at Numsa's special congress in December 2013, including the decision not to support the ANC in the general elections.

Meanwhile, Cosatu has called on Numsa to withdraw those resolutions, which it has refused to do.

Thousands of people marched in Cameroon's capital this weekend to protest against Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgency and support the Central African nation's army, which is fighting alongside regional neighbours to defeat the Islamist group.

The march in Yaounde was aimed at informing the public, especially in the southern regions, about the threat posed by Boko Haram, which has carried out regular cross-border raids in the far north.

In addition to its own citizens forced to flee the violence, thousands of refugees have poured into Cameroon from northeastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram is seeking to carve out an Islamist emirate.

Boko Haram's six-year insurgency in Nigeria has spread to neighbouring countries, where the group has launched attacks over the past year, burning villages and kidnapping residents.

The Democratic Alliance (or DA) has demanded answers over the apparent inaction of Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant following a forensic audit report detailing alleged corruption by two former Nedlac executives.

One of the implicated men is former National Economic Development and Labour Council  executive director Herbert Mkhize, now a special advisor to the minister.  

DA MP Ian Ollis said the Department of Labour initiated the external forensic report, which found that Mkhize and then chief financial officer of Nedlac, Umesh Dulabh, fraudulently and illegally enriched themselves to the value of almost R2-million using Nedlac funds.

Labour ministry spokesperson Sithembele Tshwete is yet to comment on the allegations.

Meanwhile, according to Ollis, who obtained the report through Nedlac's acting leadership last week following a Promotion of Access to Information Act application, Oliphant has had the forensic audit report for two years.

Also making headlines:

There is a moderate chance that rolling blackouts may be implemented this week, power utility Eskom said on Monday.

The Gauteng Provincial Government has outlined plans to develop a handful of ‘mega’ human settlements as part of an ambitious long-term housing development strategy aimed at narrowing the housing backlog, with plans afoot to replace informal settlements with sprawling multifunctional ‘cities’.

The Congolese army has killed at least 10 rebel fighters and captured territory, weapons and men during its latest campaign to stamp out an insurgency in the east of the country.

Floods in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo and the surrounding area have killed 14 people and forced more than 21 000 from their homes.

Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said he had placed himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a worrying recent surge in new infections in the West African nation.

And, Egypt's parliamentary poll looks set to be delayed after a court ruled that part of an election law was unconstitutional and the main election committee said it was working on a new timetable for the long-awaited vote.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.