January 21, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Rob Davies sees a declaration of Special Economic Zone for platinum this year.

Half of Central African Republic's people face hunger.

And, the ruling party wants probe into the company behind the Zuma Must Fall banner.

South African Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies said yesterday that his ministry hoped to declare a platinum beneficiation special economic zone this year.

In an interview with a news agency on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Davies said that one of the industries they were looking at was one in which fuel cells were created using platinum as the catalyst.

The declaration of a special economic zone would mitigate the challenges in the mining industry created by the commodities price crash and would advance South Africa’s position on the manufacturing value chain.

 

Two and a half million people in the Central African Republic (or CAR), half the population, have too little to eat because of conflict and insecurity, and the number has doubled in the past year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.

The former French colony, a majority Christian nation, descended into turmoil in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, provoking reprisals by Christian militia fighters.

Almost half a million people fled their homes and remained displaced within the country, while more than 450 000 had fled to neighbouring countries, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

 

The Western Cape ANC yesterday called for a 'proper investigation' into the company which was behind the large "Zuma Must Fall" banner which was erected on the side of a Cape Town building last week.

The ruling party had accused officials of the DA-led City of Cape Town of dragging its feet in taking action against the company, Independent Outdoor Media. 

ANC Western Cape leader, Marius Fransman said his party wanted to get to the bottom of this riddle.

The anti-Zuma banner sparked outrage among ANC supporters after it was put up last week.

Some took to the apartment building on Saturday and ripped it off the wall using knives and other sharp objects.

Also making headlines:

The South African Reserve Bank governor said the bank was facing a policy dilemma of slow growth and rising inflation ahead of a decision on interest rates in Africa's most industrialised country.

The DA scored yet another victory over the ANC to retained its ward in the municipal by-election in Rustenburg.

And, the ANC hit out at the DA yesterday accusing its leader Mmusi Maimane of paying lip-service to non-racialism when MP Dianne Kohler Barnard was allowed to continue working in Parliament.

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