November 27, 2014.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Chantelle Kotze.
Making headlines:

President Jacob Zuma has admitted that the African National Congress is in trouble.

Sierra Leone has appealed to the US to send military aid in an effort to help it battle Ebola.

And, most provinces have shown an improvement in their audit outcomes.

President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday admitted that the African National Congress (or ANC) had been shaken and was in trouble. Zuma said that both the youth league and the mother body had been shaken.

The president was speaking at the ANC Youth League consultative conference at the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto campus. He was referring to discussions held by the ANC's combined national working committee and national executive committee meeting on Tuesday.

Zuma warned that if everything went wrong with the ANC, everything would also go wrong in the country. He urged youth league members to defend the African National Congress.

The ANCYL conference was supposed to be the league's elective conference but the national task team announced on Tuesday that delegates would no longer elect new leaders.

Task team coordinator Magasela Mzobe said the elective phase was planned for 2015. This is the second postponement of the election of new leadership after the elective congress was originally scheduled for late September.

Sierra Leone has appealed to the US to send military aid to help it battle Ebola as it falls behind its West African neighbours Guinea and Liberia in the fight against the virus.

The worst recorded Ebola outbreak has killed at least 5 689 people, the World Health Organisation said, as the virus has overwhelmed African countries with weak infrastructure and healthcare systems.

While the outbreak appears to be coming under control in Liberia, thanks partly to a health operation run by US troops, infection rates have accelerated in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone's minister of Information and Communication Alpha Kanu said that he believed that the cases are reducing in Liberia.  He confirmed that US President Barack Obama would ask the Department of Defence and the State Department to turn attention to helping the efforts in Sierra Leone.

Kanu also appealed to the US to help Guinea, and urged Britain to provide more assistance to Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has introduced emergency Ebola measures. He said it might be necessary to call another three-day lockdown to remove the sick from communities and transfer them to newly built treatment centres.

Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu announced on Wednesday that most provinces had shown an improvement in their audit outcomes.

He said the increase in the number of clean audits and an overall net improvement in audit results showed that the audit outcomes were improving generally.

Releasing the audit outcomes for the financial year 2013/14, the Auditor-General singled out Gauteng and the Western Cape provincial departments as having led the charge in performing admirably.

He said the number of auditees with clean audit opinions improved by 25%, with the highest contributors being Gauteng and Western Cape.

He said the biggest contributors to the total number of clean audits were national government with 53 clean audits on 23% of national auditees, Gauteng with 19 clean audits on 54% of their auditees and the Western Cape with 18 on 78% of their auditees.

Limpopo and North West have the lowest number of auditees that received financially unqualified audit opinions, with the Western Cape achieving 100% and Gauteng 91%.

In KwaZulu-Natal, there was a 14% reduction in the number of auditees with financially unqualified audit opinions with no findings, while the number of auditees with financially qualified financial statements remained unchanged.

Also making headlines:

The death toll in the world's worst Ebola epidemic has risen to 5 689 out of 15 935 cases reported in eight countries by November 23, says the World Health Organisation.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party has barred his embattled deputy Joice Mujuru from contesting a seat in its highest decision-making organ, further undermining her chances of succeeding the veteran leader.

And, law firm Spoor & Fisher has called on the Department of Trade and Industry to finalise its proposed policy for Intellectual Property.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.