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Daily Podcast – September 15, 2017

15th September 2017

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines: Mkhize says party will stabilise divisions with KZN ANC, Bathabile Dlamini to deliver Sassa payments plan update And, Mugabe announces appointment of wife Grace to a key post


The ANC's national executive committee will be meeting with its provincial leadership in KwaZulu-Natal in an attempt to stabilise the current divisions within the party, ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize said yesterday.

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He said he wanted to prevent the divisions from spilling over to the December national elective conference.

The High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled on Tuesday that the party's 2015 provincial elective conference was illegitimate and should be nullified.

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Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is expected to brief journalists about the progress to introduce a new payment scheme for social grants in Hatfield, Pretoria, today.

The Constitutional Court ruled in 2014 that the contract with the current social grant distributor, CPS, was illegal and invalid.

In June, the Constitutional Court ordered that there be further investigation into whether Dlamini should be held personally liable for the social grants matter.

 

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has announced the appointment of his controversial wife Grace to a key post within his ruling Zanu-PF party in a move seen by critics as a way of positioning her to a role that would influence the First Family’s wishes in the electoral process.

Mugabe named his wife to a key five-member committee that would be responsible for overseeing the running of general elections in 2018.

All five members were linked to a Zanu-PF faction calling itself “Generation 40” that was made up of young Turks and backing Grace to torpedo Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidential ambitions.

Also making headlines:

Minister of Women in the Presidency Susan Shabangu said she was satisfied that the law would take its course in the respective cases of former deputy minister Mdu Manana and that of Zimbabwean first lady, Grace Mugabe.

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