November 24, 2014.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

The Right2Know Campaign have argued for the police to reveal South Africa's National Key Points.

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe tightens his grip on the Zanu-PF party to choose his successor.

And, Germany has committed to provide nearly R1-billion to South Africa for various joint projects.

The Right2Know Campaign (or R2K) and the South African History Archive have argued for the police to reveal South Africa's National Key Points in the High Court in Johannesburg.

R2K spokesperson Murray Hunter said in a statement that basic transparency was an important step in countering the uncontrolled secrecy and potential abuse of South Africa's 'national security' policies.

The organisations wanted the list of National Key Points in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act.

National Key Points are protected from being photographed or identified as a key point and are understood to include military installations and services or factories considered strategic.

Hunter maintained that the blanket secrecy over which sites have been declared National Key Points has helped officials and politicians to use and abuse the Act to undermine South African’s constitutional rights.

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe has changed the constitution of his ruling ZANU-PF party to allow him to directly appoint his deputies, giving the 90-year-old sole power to anoint his successor.

Until now Mugabe and his two ZANU-PF deputies have been elected by members from the country's 10 regions. The deputies automatically took up the same posts in government.

The changes to the ZANU-PF charter enacted at an all-night meeting of its politburo give Mugabe an even tighter grip at a time when deputy president Joice Mujuru has been accused of plotting to oust him at a party congress next month.

ZANU-PF's chairperson told reporters that the party had agreed "far-reaching amendments" to its constitution.

He declined to give details but two senior ZANU-PF members at the marathon meeting of the party's top executive body said Mugabe would now appoint his deputies, giving him unassailable control of a party he has led since 1975.

Germany has committed to provide nearly R1-billion to South Africa for various joint projects, the German embassy said last week.

A total of 72.5-million euros (or nearly R1-billion) were committed by Germany to the government of South Africa for development cooperation, said embassy spokesperson Rainer Breul.

A further 38.5-million euros was promised for financial cooperation programmes and 34-million euros for technical cooperation programmes.

A bi-national commission, chaired by Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his South African counterpart Maite Nkoane-Mashabane, finished on Friday.

The countries confirmed their focus on cooperation on HIV/Aids prevention, governance and public administration, and energy and climate issues – in particular, South Africa's transition to a green economy.

Also making headlines:

The DA on Sunday called on South African Airways (SAA) to suspend its acting chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout pending the outcome of an inquiry into his appointment.

The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it had staged an attack in Kenya on Saturday in which gunmen ordered non-Muslims off a bus and shot 28 dead, while sparing Muslim passengers.

Rail network theft and vandalism has risen 14% in 2013/14.

And, Burkina Faso authorities issued a decree on Sunday announcing an interim government, with President Michel Kafando and prime minister Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida also taking on the key ministries of foreign affairs and defence.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.