March 22, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Government is working on a national action plan to combat racism.

The ICC convicts Congolese politician on Central African war crimes.

And, Maimane says the ANC is taking South Africans for granted.

The department of justice and constitutional development has drafted a national action plan to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerances, President Jacob Zuma announced yesterday.

Zuma addressed thousands of people at a Human Rights Day celebration held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Zuma said the plan was designed to raise awareness of anti-racism, equality and anti-discrimination issues among public officials, civil society and the general public, mobilising support from a wide range of people.

Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba became the highest-ranking political leader to face a verdict from the International Criminal Court (or ICC) yesterday.
He was found guilty of a 2002-2003 campaign of rape and murder in the Central African Republic.

Pronouncing the verdict, presiding judge Sylvia Steiner said Bemba had failed to discipline his Movement for the Liberation of Congo soldiers as they rampaged across the neighbouring country.

The case was notable as the first in which the ICC had found a high official directly responsible for the crimes of his subordinates as well as the first to focus primarily on crimes of sexual violence committed in war.

The ANC has taken South Africans for granted, DA leader, Mmusi Maimane said yesterday.

Speaking at a DA event in Sharpville, held in commemoration of the 69 people who were gunned down by apartheid police in 1960, Maimane said the ruling party's agenda was to protect Zuma, not the country.

Maimane said when the president could say that the ANC was above South Africa, then South Africans should know that freedom could no longer be taken for granted.

Addressing around 200 DA leaders in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sharpville, Maimane said they had tried to question why the ruling party continued to be in defence of President Jacob Zuma instead of the nation.

He said it was a tragedy that a party that had fought for human rights had since become about one person.

Also making headlines:

Former ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu had been appointed as the ruling party's new chief whip in Parliament.

ANC told Gordhan and Sars to make peace.

And, anti e-toll group Outa said that it had “plenty of evidence” indicating the Gauteng tolling equipment was unreliable.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today