April 21, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.
Making headlines:

Opposition parties reprimand Nxesi over Nkandla.

PDP said Mugabe lied about the economy.

And, ANCYL's Maine chased away by Gupta employees.

Opposition parties took matters into their own hands yesterday, and reprimanded Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi over Nkandla.

The minister was presenting the public works budget vote, but opposition parties were more interested in raking him over the coals for his department’s role in the renovations to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home.

This followed the Constitutional Court judgment last month, which called for Zuma to reprimand ministers who had been involved in the Nkandla issue.

DA MP, Patricia Kopane, said the minister of public works and his department had failed the country.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, 92, lied that the country’s economy was on the rebound when it was actually in a sharp decline, opposition People’s Democratic Party (or PDP) said.

PDP national spokesperson, Jacob Mafume, said Mugabe’s speech to the nation on Independence Day showed that he was out of touch with reality.

Mafume said while Mugabe painted a bright picture of companies being revitalised, the country’s economic growth rate in 2015 stood at minus 1.7% and was projected to be minus 3.8% by the end of 2016.

 

A meeting scheduled between ANCYL President Collin Maine and Gupta-owned Oakbay employees ended abruptly when Oakbay employees chased him away.

Employees chanted "Maine must fall" as he tried to make his way to his vehicle.

Maine said he had received an open letter from Oakbay employees, addressed to the ANCYL and the Ad hoc Committee on Finance in Parliament.

The letter apparently pleaded with ABSA to reopen the Oakbay account for the sake of its employees.

Also making headlines:

Tsvangirai said MDC was not a threat to national stability.
And, Public Works asset register was completed.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today