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Daily Podcast – November 21, 2016

Daily Podcast – November 21, 2016

21st November 2016

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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November 21, 2016.
For Creamer Media’s Polity, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

EFF rejects proposed minimum wage

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Mugabe says he will retire

And, Zuma must expose 'those who are stealing', says opposition parties

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The EFF has slammed the proposed National Minimum wage of R3 500 per month, announced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday, saying that the move favours business at the expense of workers. 

Ramaphosa announced the findings of the National Minimum Wage report. Among them, was a proposal of an NMW of R3 500 per month or R20 per hour.

EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the proposal would not lead to the desired resolution of the problem of inequality. He said Instead, it was going to institutionalise these inequalities at low poverty wages.


For the first time, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said he will retire.

He did not put a time line on when he would go, but he said Zimbabwe was in a financial crisis and that he would retire, but would do it “properly”. It was not clear what he meant by “properly”. Mugabe had always maintained he would never retire and would die in office.

He was speaking at the weekend to a group of people involved in the 1970s war against minority white rule who claimed they were owed money by the state which could neither fund them nor pay civil servants on time.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF said Mugabe will be its candidate in the 2018 elections and will only retire in 2023, when he turns 99.


President Jacob Zuma must report those he claims are "stealing" or face becoming an accessory to crime himself, the DA and the EFF said yesterday.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane said Zuma had a legal duty to report to the law enforcement authorities those who he knew to be engaged in criminal behaviour. 

He was responding to comments Zuma made on Friday when he told ANC supporters attending a cadres' forum in Pietermaritzburg that "people who were accusing him of stealing were the biggest culprits.


Also making headlines:
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said the National Qualifications Framework Amendment Bill 2016, aimed to clamp down on fake degrees. 

And, first lady Grace Mugabe's ambition of becoming Zimbabwe's deputy president had been "put on hold".

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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