Daily Podcast – April 13, 2016

13th April 2016 By: Sane Dhlamini - Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

Daily Podcast – April 13, 2016

Blade Nzimande
Photo by: Duane Daws

April 13, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

KZN ANC says the Gauteng ANC 'ill-disciplined and mischievous'.

Breather for banks as Mugabe clarifies indigenisation.

And, Nzimande reply to questions on the cost of #FeesMustFall protests.


The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has hit out at the ANC in Gauteng, calling it "mischievous" for issuing a statement asking President Jacob Zuma to "do the right thing" following the recent Constitutional Court ruling on Nkandla.

ANC provincial spokesperson Mdumiseni Ntuli said they would not entertain the possibility of a replacement for Zuma and added that it was not only ill-disciplined but also mischievous.

The Gauteng ANC's provincial executive committee issued a statement yesterday calling on Zuma to "do the right thing" by fixing the political damage caused by the Nkandla matter.


Foreign banks in Zimbabwe, among them units of South African groups, yesterday got respite to their plans to comply with the country’s empowerment laws after President Robert Mugabe clarified confusion regarding implementation of the law and said the banks remained under the Finance Ministry.

South African banking groups in Zimbabwe included Nedbank  and Standard Bank.

Zimbabwe had given foreign companies in the country a March 31 deadline to submit empowerment compliance plans or risk being shut down which had left the banking sector uncertain of their future.

 

The nationwide Fees Must Fall protests resulted in over R300-million in damages, the Department of Higher Education said.

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said 14 universities had submitted damage reports.

He was replying to a written question from the DA, which was published yesterday.

Last week, protesters started a fire in a University of Witwatersrand lecture hall.

In the reply, Nzimande said the universities had so far not confirmed "from which university budgets these damages would be recovered. However, certain damages will be paid or recovered from insurance claims".


Also making headlines:

Janusz Walus judgement to be made tomorrow. 

The IMF said South Africa's economy was seen weighed down by policy uncertainty.

Free State ANC said they would never ask for Zuma to step down.

And, Wits Vice Chancellor Adam Habib said higher education was not reducing inequality.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today