October 28, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Bruce Montiea.
Making headlines:

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande will soon announce a plan for varsity funding shortfall.

Tanzanian opposition party challenges vote count and cites rigging. 

And, Police Committee wants the SAPS to account for security breach at Parliament during student protests last week.

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has told Parliament that a plan to finance university shortfalls will be announced on Thursday.

This came after President Jacob Zuma's announcement last week that there would be no increase in university fees for 2016.

The announcement followed days of protests by students who wanted a zero percent increase in university fees for next year.

Speaking at a transformation in higher education debate, Nzimande said his department was working on finding the funds.

He added that the wealthier universities had committed to make a contribution.

In the long term, he said, it was estimated that an additional R19.7-billion a year would be required for the university subsidies excluding the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

Tanzania's main opposition party said it didn’t recognise results announced from a weekend presidential and parliamentary election due to "widespread rigging".

This comes after a broadly peaceful vote that the ruling party said it won.

Tanzania had been one of Africa's most politically stable nations, ruled for half a century by the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (or CCM) party despite the CCM president being changed often.

The opposition had complained about abuses in past votes, but this challenge carried more weight as Chadema and other major opposition parties had united in a coalition for the first time, fielding a single presidential candidate.

Full and final results were not expected until Thursday.

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the National Electoral Commission, Damian Lubuva dismissed allegations of any voting abuses.

Police top brass will be summoned to Parliament next week to explain how the South African Police Service (or SAPS)  handled protests over university fee increases which resulted in security at the legislature being breached on October 21.

The portfolio committee on police has undertaken to set aside 05 November 2015 for a meeting in which the SAPS will be expected to brief the committee on visible and public order policing units in relation to the recent breaches at Parliament, the committee said in a statement on Tuesday.

The SAPS would also be expected to table a status report on how its officers handled the student protests.

The police came under fire last week with the ruling party berating officers for the security breach at Parliament, and accusing them of being heavy-handed in dealing with protesting students.

Also making headlines:

As thousands of EFF marchers arrived in Sandton, the party's leader Julius Malema had harsh words for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange after a fence was erected at the entrance of its building.

SASCO branch chair had said he was bitterly disappointed that the debate in Parliament on university fees was nothing more than political point scoring.

And, the Witwatersrand University had beefed up security at its Braamfontein campus after fires caused damage to property.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today