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Daily Podcast – November 27, 2015

Daily Podcast – November 27, 2015

27th November 2015

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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November 27, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

President Jacob Zuma says the ruling party will continue to win.

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Pope Francis says failure of climate summit would be catastrophic.

And, Solly Phetoe has been elected as the new Cosatu deputy general secretary.

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The ANC will continue winning elections and the only difference will be by what percentage, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.

Closing off a debate on democracy in the National Council of Provinces, he chastened opposition parties who celebrated the party’s decrease in support.
Zuma said the ruling party was a game changer.

He said the ANC had won elections, had been winning elections and it was going to [continue to] win elections. He said the argument should be on the percentage.

Zuma said opposition parties were too interested in what the ANC did.

He bragged about the statesmen that had been produced by the ANC, including former president Nelson Mandela.

 

World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming Paris, facing the stark choice to either "improve or destroy the environment", Pope Francis said in Africa yesterday.

Francis chose his first visit to the world's poorest continent to issue a clarion call for the success of the two-week COP21 summit, which starts on Monday in Paris.

In a long address in Spanish at the United Nations regional office, Francis said it would be "catastrophic" if particular interests prevailed over the common good of people and the planet or if the conference were manipulated by business interests.

The Pope is expected to visit Uganda, which like Kenya had been victim of Islamist attacks, and the Central African Republic, a nation riven by sectarian conflict.

 

Cosatu’s provincial secretary in the North West, Solly Phetoe was elected the deputy general secretary of the trade federation yesterday.

Phetoe obtained 1 679 votes while his rival Oscar Phaka from the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa obtained 677 votes.

Acting secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali was nominated unopposed to fill the position of the federation’s general secretary. He had been acting in the general secretary position left vacant after Zwelinzima Vavi was fired.

Leadership positions that were not contested included; Sdumo Dlamini as president, Tyotyo James as the first deputy president , Zingiswa Losi as second deputy president and Freda Oosthuizen as treasurer.

Phetoe was elected uncontested as the North West provincial secretary at the provincial congress in June.

 

Also making headlines:

EFF leader Julius Malema said South Africa would become like other failed African states if President Jacob Zuma was left unchecked.

More than 400 delegates are expected to attend the ANC Women’s League’s Provincial General Council in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.

Nehawu's Parliament bonus negotiations are at a 'critical stage'.

And, Mali authorities have arrested two people suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital that killed 20 people.


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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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