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24th October 2014

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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October 24, 2014.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Lesotho signs the Maseru Security Accord, which aims to promote security in the mountain Kingdom.

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Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe says Deputy President Joice Mujuru should resign.

And, South African Airways would consider an equity partnership, says Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown.


South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the Maseru Security Accord was signed in Lesotho on Thursday. This new deal is aimed at promoting security in the mountain kingdom.

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Ramaphosa, who is also a South African Development Community (or SADC) facilitator, said he was confident the deal was an important chapter and milestone in the return of Lesotho to constitutional normalcy and the stabilisation of the security situation.

Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane was forced to seek refuge in South Africa alleging a coup by the army. He said he feared for his life after troops surrounded his official residence and attacked key police installations earlier this year.

The security accord, signed by Lieutenant-General Tladi Kamoli, Lieutenant-General Maaparankoe Mahao and Commissioner Khotatso Tsooana, is aimed at promoting harmonious relations between the leadership, officers and members of both the Lesotho Defence Force and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service.

Ramaphosa said that the accord would also ensure that the work of the SADC Politics, Defence and Security Observer mission was respected, adding that Kamoli, Tsooana and Mahao agreed to go on a leave of absence for specified periods within 14 days and to undergo working visits to specified SADC and Commonwealth countries.

 

Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe said on Thursday that Deputy President Joice Mujuru should resign, in an attack likely to widen divisions in the ruling party. Mujuru is the potential successor to Grace Mugabe’s 90-year-old husband Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe’s wife, who is a leader of the women's wing of the Zanu-PF party, has accused Mujuru of betraying the president by mobilising support for a possible challenge for the party leadership at a December congress.  Mujuru, who has been Mugabe’s deputy for at least ten years, is yet to respond to the attacks. Meanwhile, analysts are saying that Mugabe’s silence on the matter suggests that he shares his wife’s views.

Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since it regained independence from Britain in 1980. He won re-election last year in a vote denounced by his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai as a ‘huge fraud’.

Speculation is rife among both supporters and opponents of Mugabe’s deteriorating health, even though he has denied it, raising worries about violent instability if he dies with the succession battle in Zanu-PF unresolved.

 


Embattled State-owned entity South African Airways (or SAA) would consider an equity partnership, said Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown

The Minister said the airline was investigating all its options amid an attempt to implement a turnaround strategy, adding that they were working on a different financial model for how they will fund the airline going forward. She went on to say that SAA was technically not a going concern.

Brown also announced the appointment of an interim board following two general meetings in which six resignations were adopted. Cabinet retained chairperson Duduzile Myeni and Yakhe Kwinana, and appointed Dr John Tambi and Anthony Dixon while Monwabisi Kalawe and CFO Wolf Meyer continue serving on the board.   

Brown said her intervention was aimed at stabilising SAA, which has been loss-making for the past few years.

Also making headlines:

South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis has been described as an “emergency-type situation” that can only be sustainably addressed through a frank dialogue between government, business, labour and civil society.

Nigeria has pledged to send a contingent of 600 volunteers to help fight Ebola in West Africa.

South Africa's biggest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is facing expulsion from the main labour federation linked to the ruling African National Congress.

Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola, becoming the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the haemorrhagic fever.

And, the construction of a R170-million Giant Flag project, in the Camdeboo municipal area of the Karoo, is scheduled to start early next year, creating more than 700 jobs in the area.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.

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