June 02, 2017.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Nxesi says likelihood of DA beating ANC not impossible

Cosatu president warns of 'casualties' as they battle Zuma

And, Hlaudi Motsoeneng's disciplinary hearing to resume

 

A future where the DA takes over from the ANC is not inconceivable, SACP deputy chairperson Thulas Nxesi said yesterday.

Nxesi was addressing the Congress of South African Trade Unions' 6th central committee meeting in Irene.

Zuma was embroiled in controversy following the release of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report in 2016, and then again because of his late night Cabinet reshuffle on March 30 this year.

 

Labour federation the Congress of South African Trade Unions president Sdumo Dlamini has warned of casualties as the organisation plans to intensify its call for Zuma to go.

Dlamini told delegates at the Cosatu central committee in Irene that his daughter said there was a dead cat outside his house with its stomach contents on the outside.

He warned that next time it could be a human being.

He was describing to workers an event which took place at his home shortly after the federation called for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

 

Former South African Broadcasting Corporation COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s disciplinary hearing is expected to continue today.

He faces charges of bringing the broadcaster into disrepute, following a media briefing he held on April 19.

At the last hearing, the SABC argued that Motsoeneng's behaviour warranted immediate dismissal but his lawyers argued that the SABC’s parallel hearings into his conduct were unfair.

Madonsela found that Motsoeneng lied about having matric when he first applied to work at the SABC, that he purged senior staff, and hiked his salary from R1.5-million to R2.4-million.

Also making headlines:

EFF opposed to Judicial Commission appointed by Zuma.

And, Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula says Phahlane must explain why he shouldn't be suspended.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today