August 24, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is expected to release the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa report.

Military chiefs from the Lake Chad region finalise plans for a Boko Haram force.

And, the Democratic Alliance says a contingency plan is needed as Eskom reveals it has no ‘plan B’ for coal.

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is expected to release her report on an investigation into allegations of maladministration at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (or Prasa) on Monday afternoon.

The report was initially meant to be released on July 23, however according to her office, "implicated parties" approached her on July 22 requesting that she postponed the release "on the basis that they wished to make representations to her on issues that are central to the investigation".

Prasa CEO Lucky Montana was axed by the agency on July 16.

In 2012, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (or Satawu) reported allegations of corruption and tender irregularities at the agency to the public protector alleging that Montana was responsible for wasteful expenditure and had violated sections of the Public Finance Management Act.

Satawu reportedly claimed that Montana irregularly awarded tenders worth an estimated R1-billion.

 

Military chiefs from the Lake Chad region have finalised details of the deployment of a joint force to fight Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, designating three command posts in Nigeria and Cameroon.

At a two-day meeting in N'Djamena, which concluded late on Friday, military commanders from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin agreed to accelerate the deployment of the 8 700-strong force, which will have its overall command centre in the Chadian capital.

A disjointed campaign by Nigeria, Chad and Niger swept Boko Haram out of the towns of northeast Nigeria earlier this year but the group, which has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, has killed hundreds of people in the last three months in those three countries, as well as neighbouring Cameroon.

 

The Democratic Alliance (or DA) said Eskom’s failure to have a contingency plan in place for coal supplies is nothing less than gross negligence.

The DA would ask Public Enterprises Minister Lynn Brown to table a   contingency plan to deal with possible coal shortages nationally. This followed Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe’s comments that there was no “plan B” should coal supplies to the Hendrina Power Station be depleted.

Hendrina power station, which supplied 2 000 megawatts of power to the national grid, was reported to have only 40 days of coal supply left.

Following the suspension of the agreement between Optimum coal mine and Eskom, there was a great risk that power being supplied from this station could be interrupted.

 

Also making headlines:

South African National Roads Agency Limited has claimed that it made an offer to resolve a court feud over the proposed tolling in the city of Cape Town.

High-level talks between North and South Korea resumed at the truce village of Panmunjom on Sunday in an effort to defuse tensions following an exchange of gunfire last week that prompted the North to threaten "all-out war".

An ex-prime minister and several ministers were among 22 candidates who registered for Burkina Faso's October election, meaning the West African country's next president would likely come from the old political guard.

And, the Italian navy rescues 4 400 migrants off Libya’s coast.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.