July 22, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Kimberly Smuts.
Making headlines:

The Nkandla ad-hoc committee will visit President Jacob Zuma's homestead today.

Nigerians flee to Cameroon and Niger as Boko Haram attacks border towns. 

And, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is the most favoured presidential candidate according to a survey.

Parliament's ad-hoc committee on Nkandla will conduct an in-loco inspection of President Jacob Zuma's controversial KwaZulu-Natal homestead today. 

Chairperson of the committee Cedric Frolick said recently that the visit to the president’s private residence would not be open to the media because the committee did not have the legal authority to allow the media to enter Zuma’s house.

Police Minister Nathi Nhleko told the committee on Tuesday that more money may have to be spent on Nkandla to install additional security.

This was because public scrutiny had compromised Zuma's safety, he said.

He insisted that the amphitheatre and soil retention wall, visitors’ centre, “firepool”, kraal and culvert, were all security features, maintaining that Zuma did not have to pay for them.

This, however, contradicted Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s own findings – released in March 2014 – that Zuma had to pay for those features not related to security, like the pool and the amphitheatre.

 

The conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government is displacing thousands on both sides of the country's border with Cameroon to the northeast and Niger to the north.

Boko Haram has fought a six-year insurgency to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria. It was still carrying out cross-border attacks, in the face of a Nigerian military campaign bolstered by Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

At least 13 people were killed in a twin suicide attack by suspected militants in the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol on July 12.

The United Nations Higgh Commissioner for Refugees said that many of those moving south, away from the sites of recent attacks, were going to the Minawao camp in Cameroon, where around 100 people arrived each day.

 

A survey revealed that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be the most favoured candidate to take over from President Jacob Zuma after the next general elections.

The survey was conducted by New World Wealth, a group which provides information on the global wealth sector, with a special focus on high growth markets.

It was conducted through one-on-one questionnaires with 1 200 candidates from different demographic and income groups across South Africa.

Of those polled, 71% said the businessman would be the best candidate, while the ruling party's secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, came in second with 10%.

Eight percent of those polled believed that African National Congress chairperson and Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete would be a good president.

However, the leader of the strongest opposition party, Mmusi Maimane, came in fourth on the list, scoring 6% of the votes.

Also making headlines:

A financial analyst has warned that a 25 basis point interest rate hike can be expected at Thursday's meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank.

And, riot police raided the home of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.