November 17, 2014.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet the leaders of political parties in Parliament.

Burkina Faso names former foreign minister Michel Kafando as transitional president.

And, President Jacob Zuma concludes his visit to Australia where he participated in the G20 summit. 

Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday meet the leaders of political parties in Parliament. Parliament spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said in a statement that Ramaphosa convened the meeting in his capacity as leader of government business in Parliament, adding that eleven leaders had confirmed their attendance. 

Mamoepa said the meeting was part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and consolidate parliamentary democratic processes by promoting a sound and healthy working relationship between parliamentary political parties and members of the national executive.

Last week, chaos erupted in Parliament as opposition parties shouted down National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete when she tried to prevent them from bringing dozens of motions. Most of these were related to spending on so-called security upgrades at President Jacob Zuma's private Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal, which Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found Zuma to have unduly benefited from.

Tempers flared over the hours as ANC MPs retaliated by objecting to motions the opposition attempted to bring to delay tabling a report on the upgrades.

Authorities in Burkina Faso named former foreign minister Michel Kafando as transitional president on Monday in a key step towards returning the West African country to democracy in the wake of a brief military takeover.

Kafando was chosen as part of a charter hammered out after long time President Blaise Compaore was toppled on October 31 following mass protests, only to be replaced a day later by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida. Kafando will name a prime minister to appoint a 25-member government; however, he will be barred from standing at elections planned for late next year.

The committee, drawn from the army, traditional and religious groups, civil society and the political opposition, selected him from among five candidates after a closed-door meeting that began on Sunday and went into the early hours, witnesses said.

The African Union gave Zida two weeks to re-establish civilian rule or face sanctions and on Saturday he restored the constitution, which was suspended when Compaore was overthrown.

Compaore was a regional power broker and a Western ally against Islamist militants, but many opposed his efforts to change the constitution that would have allowed him to stand for re-election next year and extend his 27-year rule.

President Jacob Zuma has concluded his visit to Australia where he participated in the G20 summit. Zuma commended the outcome of the summit where the focus was a commitment to lift the G20's Gross Domestic Product by at least an additional two per cent by 2018.

He said this year's G20 Summit was organised differently as it focused mainly on measures to achieve economic growth globally and to create jobs by lifting the world's GDP by two per cent. Zuma said in a statement that Australia, as the current chair of the G20, had kept the agenda of the summit focused on issues related to the global economy, development, growth and trade.

He added that during the summit, leaders from G20 member countries briefed their peers on developments in their respective regions and that South Africa provided an African perspective on a number of issues such as the global economy and trade, infrastructure development, inclusive growth, the global financial situation and combating the scourge of Ebola, among others. He said in order to sustain global growth South Africa had to accelerate infrastructure development, especially in Africa.

Also making headlines:

The US has included Mali to the list of countries whose travelers require special Ebola screening after a number of cases in the West African nation.

The bodies of 74 South Africans, killed when a church guesthouse collapsed in Nigeria in September, arrived home on Sunday, with South Africa looking to ease diplomatic tensions that flared after the disaster.

And, a surgeon from Sierra Leone being treated for Ebola in a Nebraska hospital on Saturday was critically ill after being airlifted back from Africa.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.