September 17, 2012
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Motshabi Hoaeane.
Making headlines:

The Department of Public Enterprises’ new State company remuneration framework to prioritise delivery against compacts.

The Carlifonian man linked to an anti-Islam film is taken in for questioning.

And, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai marries a woman under a custom that permits polygamy.

South Africa’s Department of Public Enterprises (or DPE) says its review of State-owned company (or SoC) executive remuneration is well advanced. The model that is eventually adopted will seek to strengthen the link between performance, as defined by shareholder compacts, and remuneration.

Director-general Tshediso Matona said the department was “grappling” with ways to balance the need to attract top-level talent with society’s current anxiety over salaries. The salaries in most cases are perceived to be excessive.

Prevailing remuneration methodologies being used by the eight SoCs for which the DPE had direct shareholder oversight had been driven by the entities themselves. This places the DPE in a “reactive position” on the matter.

Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba instituted a review of the framework and indicated in August that he was likely to consider the outcomes in September, before handing the report to Cabinet for its consideration.

A California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who has been convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning on Saturday by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests in the Muslim world.

Los Angeles County Sheriff spokesperson Steve Whitmore said that federal probation officers would interview Nakoula, who denied involvement in the film to his Coptic Christian Bishop. He said that he had not been placed under arrest. However, he would not be returning home immediately.

The crudely made 13-minute English-language film, filmed in California and circulated on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims", mocks the Prophet Mohammad.
For many Muslims, any depiction of the prophet is blasphemous. Caricatures deemed insulting in the past have provoked protests and drawn condemnations from officials, preachers, ordinary Muslims and many Christians.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, whose wedding plans appeared to have been thwarted when a court ruled he was already wed to a former flame, pressed ahead with his marriage on Saturday under a custom that permits polygamy.

Tsvangirai could not be married in a legally recognised ceremony because of the embarrassing ruling. As a result, and in an apparent bid to save face, he instead held a ceremony under Zimbabwe's "customary marriage" practice.

The scandal has gripped the nation and handed his rival, President Robert Mugabe, political ammunition as he seeks to extend his three-decade rule in an election expected within a year.

Also making headlines:

Tunisia’s death toll rises to four in US embassy attacks.

Libyan President Mohammed Magarief says fifty people have been arrested in connection with the deadly US consulate attack.

And, Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale says a paradigm shift is needed to sort out the problem of sanitation.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.