July 28, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Kimberley Smuts.
Making headlines:

Reinstated SABC journalists expected back at work... again

Sidelined Riek Machar says appointment of new South Sudan vice president is 'illegal'

And, mayoral candidate Cachalia says DA will defeat ANC in Ekurhuleni

 

It will be a case of second time lucky for four fired South African Broadcasting Corporation journalists if they manage to successfully return to work today, after the broadcaster refused to let them back in yesterday.

The SABC yesterday morning said it would appeal the Labour Court’s order that it reinstate the four, after trade union Solidarity threatened more legal action.

Three other SABC journalists who were recently fired, would also argue their cases in the Labour Court today.

The SABC assured they would be allowed back into their offices and called on them to drop their court case.

 

South Sudan's former vice president and prominent opposition leader Riek Machar has told Al Jazeera that his replacement by President Salva Kiir is "illegal".

In an exclusive phone interview yesterday, Machar said he was still the first vice president of South Sudan.

Kiir replaced Machar on Monday with General Taban Deng Gai, after appearing to have his hand forced by a sharp surge in violence earlier this month between government and opposition fighters, which threatened to send the world's youngest country back to all-out civil war.

Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni Ghaleb Cachalia is planning to take the fight for the city to key African National Congress wards, he told journalists yesterday.

He said his party had identified key wards in areas such as Tembisa, Vosloorus, Tsakane and Daveyton.

‎Confident of a DA win, Cachalia said it would blitz every ward in each community in the last days of electioneering.

He said there were 20 wards they had identified that would allow them to take the metro. ‎

 

Also making headlines:

Mugabe warns those who criticise him. 

ANC candidates standing as independents to be sacked.

And, ANC Youth League in KwaZulu-Natal give Dlamini-Zuma the nod for ANC president candidacy. 

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