August 27, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

President Jacob Zuma will meet with disgruntled judges.

Algerian troops have killed five Islamist fighters in operation. 

And, Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande wants answers from Stellenbosch University on the documentary 'Luister'. 

 

President Jacob Zuma is to meet with disgruntled judges and other judicial officers in Pretoria today to try to iron out their differences.

This was after comments by senior government ministers that some court verdicts were biased.

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng rejected the allegations, and requested a meeting with Zuma to discuss them.  

At the time, it was reported that Police Minister Nathi Nhleko told senior managers of the Independent Police Investigating Directorate that there were "interesting" elements in the judiciary who "meet with characters to produce certain judgments" without mentioning any specific cases.

Ruling party secretary general Gwede Mantashe also expressed concern about the judiciary interfering with the executive and the legislature, through "judicial overreach".

 

Algeria's armed forces have mounted operations against Islamist militants in the east of the country and killed five fighters in the past few days.

The Algerian government is fighting two armed groups, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Caliphate Soldiers, a branch of Islamic State.

Since the end of a civil war in the 1990s, which killed more than 200 000 people, Algeria has become a US ally in its fight against armed Islamist militancy in the Sahel.

 

Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande wants answers from the University of Stellenbosch after watching the documentary Luister (Listen), in which students tell of anti-black racism on and off campus.

The Minister has closely studied the documentary and written a letter to the Chairperson of Council, George Steyn, requesting the University Council to provide him with a report on how it intends to address the matter.

Nzimande said the issue was not only about Afrikaans as a language of instruction, which some students said excluded them from some subjects, but also about racist attitudes among some white students and academics.

He acknowledged efforts by Vice Chancellor Professor Wim de Villiers to remove discrimination, which included the "Open Stellenbosch" transformation initiative, and a transformation office and committee.

Also making headlines:

Robert McBride is expected to start his constitutional challenge regarding Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's powers to suspend him in a case starting at the High Court in Pretoria today. 

Local government wage negotiations were successfully concluded with no strike action.

And, a United Nations official said its brokered political dialogue process in Libya was in its final stages.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.