November,24 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:
Zuma extends fees commission deadline
Mashaba has done nothing about corruption says ANC
And, Madonsela never investigated white people says Motsoeneng

President Jacob Zuma has extended the deadline for the fees commission to complete its report to June 30, 2017, the Presidency said yesterday.

He received the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training’s interim report earlier this month.

It was established in January to investigate the feasibility of free higher education in South Africa.

The final report was expected to be completed within eight months. The commission’s terms of reference were amended to make provision for the extension.

Presidency spokesperson Bongani Ngqulunga said that the commission chairperson, Judge Jonathan Heher, had submitted the interim report to Zuma after only three of the proposed eight sets into which the commission had divided its work had been completed.

The African National Congress in Johannesburg yesterday accused Mayor Herman Mashaba of having bungled his first 94 days in office.

Johannesburg ANC leader Geoffrey Makhubo told reporters that the outspoken mayor had made sexist comments about female managers in the metro, cancelled the bicycle lanes project, closed food banks, and had done nothing about corruption.

The City had been working with police and the Hawks on some investigations. As a result, the City had increased capacity for forensic investigations.

During the ANC’s tenure, Makhubo said 207 investigations were concluded, 251 officials were dismissed and 97 criminal cases opened.

 

Embattled SABC group corporate affairs officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng accused former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela of racism when he spoke on the sidelines of his battle against a Democratic Alliance court bid to have him kicked out of his job.

Moving from calling the Democratic Alliance's application against him in the High Court in Cape Town "racist" and anti-transformation, he questioned why the subjects of Madonsela's investigations were always black.

He said both black and white people were capable of being corrupt.

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