September 3, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Police minister Nathi Nhleko says Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega has not been suspended. 

Sierra Leone to vaccinate 200 people who were connected to an Ebola victim.

And, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says fixing Eskom, South African Airways and the South African Post Office is not for votes.

Police minister Nathi Nhleko said National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega had not been suspended.

While briefing journalists in Parliament, Nhleko wouldn’t be drawn on Phiyega’s future. This was in light of the report of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the 2012 Marikana massacre in which 34 miners were shot dead by police.

The Commission of Inquiry recommended for Phiyega to face a board of inquiry.

Nhleko said plans were being put in place to ensure other recommendations from the Farlam commission were being implemented. These included the establishment of a panel of experts to help the South African Police Service change the way it dealt with violent protests.

The United Nations (or UN) World Health Organisation said Sierra Leone would vaccinate around 200 people who came into direct or indirect contact with a woman who died of Ebola on Saturday.

The death of the 67-year-old woman sets back efforts to end an 18-month epidemic that has infected more than 28 000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and killed more than a third of them.  

The previous new case of the disease was reported on August 8.

WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said they would vaccinate those in the chiefdom who came into direct contact with the deceased and those contacts they also came into close contact with.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said that his attempts to improve the efficiency of South Africa's state-owned entities (or SOEs) were not an attempt to get more votes in the 2016 Local Government Elections.

He was updating the National Council of Provinces (or NCOP) on his plans to improve the efficiency of key SOEs such as South African Airways (or SAA), Eskom and the South African Post Office (or Sapo).

Answering a question from Democratic Alliance NCOP leader Elza van Lingen, Ramaphosa assured her that his focus on SOEs was not a strategy to win votes in next year’s Local Government Elections.

He said it was just a case of the African National Congress “doing its job”.

Ramaphosa was assigned by cabinet in December 2014 to develop turnaround strategies for parastatals. This was to enable them to play a meaningful role in contributing towards South Africa's growth and development.

Also making headlines:

Platinum mining major Impala Platinum said that it intended raising up to R4-billion through the sale of new Implats ordinary shares using an accelerated bookbuild process.

Two years ago, Pascal Affi N'Guessan was in jail after backing the losing side in Ivory Coast's civil war. Now he is running for president, provoking a power struggle within the opposition whose outcome will help decide the country's future stability.

And, sea rescue services said a boat containing around 40 African migrants including a toddler girl landed on a beach on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.