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Making headlines: Mcebisi Jonas takes the stand in State capture inquiry, Zim ConCourt to rule on election challenge And, farmers and agriculture roleplayers says they don't need Trump to solve land reform in SA

 

Mcebisi Jonas takes the stand in State capture inquiry

Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas addressed the commission of inquiry into State capture today.

Jonas claimed that the Gupta family offered him an initial R600 000 cash, and then R600-million to be given later, if he accepted the job of finance minister.

He was expected to replace Nhlanhla Nene who was fired in December 2015.

Jonas said he had met with former president Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane, businessman Fana Hlongwane and the eldest of the Gupta brothers, Ajay. He also went on to reveal that Gupta had threatened to kill him if he ever told anyone about the meeting.

Jonas continues his testimony.

 

Zim ConCourt to rule on election challenge

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court is expected to make a ruling today on the election results court challenge brought by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who alleges the elections won by ZANU PF and its presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa were rigged.

Since the results were announced earlier in August, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has adjusted downwards the margins of Mnangagwa's total, saying it did so to correct a "clerical error".

At least six people were shot dead by the army in the capital Harare hours before the results were announced.

The Concourt will either validate the results or nullify them and order a re-run.

 

Farmers and agriculture roleplayers says they don't need Trump to solve land reform in SA

US President Donald Trump is not needed to solve land reform issues, farmers and other roleplayers in the South African agricultural sector said, slamming his comments about land expropriation.

On Wednesday, Trump tweeted that he had asked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.

Speaking on the sidelines of a land summit in Bela Bela yesterday, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane responded to Trump's tweets by saying this was “our country and only solutions that come from where we live will work."

AgriSA president Dan Kriek echoed the minister's sentiments, telling a news agency that "the message from the land summit was that South Africans will solve our own problems".

 

Also making headlines:

Adam Catzavelos has apologised for his comments which he said has "caused unspeakable pain to South Africans".

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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