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May 29, 2014
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I'm Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

Minerals Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi unveils a mining task team to tackle the ongoing strikes.

Zimbabwe plans 100% 'local control' of minerals and land.

And, a Nigerian official says four girls escaped from Boko Haram but another 219 girls are still missing.

 

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Mineral Resources Minister Advocate Ngoako Ramatlhodi has established an inter-governmental technical team to work with labour and business to resolve the strike in the North West platinum belt.

This comes after a protracted wage dispute that lasted for over four months and has slowed productivity and put a dent on the country’s economic growth.

Ramatlhodi, who was sworn into office on Monday, said the technical team would include officials from the Departments of Mineral Resources, Labour and National Treasury. They will meet at an undisclosed location on Thursday, supported by representatives from the platinum companies, as well as labour union the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.

“The mandate of the technical team is to broaden the approach and explore all possibilities for a resolution to the problem. They will interrogate all the information (including the figures) provided by both parties, and report back by the end of the day on what is possible,” Ramatlhodi said.

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Zimbabwe will demand 100% local control of its minerals and land under planned changes to its controversial black economic empowerment law, which has largely kept some foreign investors away, the finance minister said on Wednesday.

Patrick Chinamasa's comments are sure to add to an already confused picture over policy in Zimbabwe, where the ruling ZANU-PF party has long tried to lift black ownership in the economy in a bid to rectify the imbalances of the colonial era.

The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act, which compels foreign-owned companies, including mines and banks, to sell at least 51% shares to blacks, was signed into law by veteran President Robert Mugabe in 2008. Chinamasa told parliament that the cabinet had directed the minister of youth and empowerment to amend the law.

 

Four more girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, the education commissioner for Nigeria's Borno state said on Wednesday, leaving 219 still missing.

The girls were taking exams at a secondary school in the remote north-eastern village of Chibok on April 14 when the Islamist gunmen surrounded it, loaded 276 of them onto trucks and carted them off, according to official figures.

Fifty-three escaped shortly afterwards, say authorities in Borno state, which lies at the epicentre of the insurgency.

Education commissioner Musa Inuwa said the four had been reunited with their parents, but he declined to give further details of their escape.

 

 

Also making headlines:

Egypt'sAbdel Fattah al-Sisi sweeps to victory in the presidential election.

And, the World Health Organisation says the West Africa Ebola outbreak is still spreading, with the situation being serious.

That’s a roundup of news-making headlines today.

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