June 05, 2017.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Sanco says Molefe is holding Eskom to ransom

Mugabe's fresh land grab threats 'are racist and nonsensical'

And, ANC Western Cape says Helen Zille must resign

 

The South African National Civic Organisation today decried Brian Molefe’s labour court action to challenge his removal as Eskom CEO as an attempt to hold the power utility to ransom.

Molefe is set to launch his urgent application in the Labour Court today after he was was fired as Eskom CEO last week in a bid to take his former employer and Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown to court over his dismissal.

Sanco spokesperson Jabu Mahlangu said Molefe’s sense of entitlement was seemingly encouraged by the Eskom board which should be dissolved for putting personal interests above good corporate governance and national interest.

 

Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has castigated President Robert Mugabe over his recent threats to embark on fresh land grabs targeting the few remaining white commercial farmers in the southern African country.

The nonagenarian on Friday said that white commercial farmers who still remained on the farms should be removed from their properties because most Zimbabweans were in need of land.

He was addressing thousands of his ruling Zanu-PF party supporters in the farming town of Marondera, about 80km east of the capital Harare.

 

The ANC in the Western Cape yesterday called for the immediate resignation of former DA party leader and Western Cape premier, Helen Zille.

ANC Western Cape acting chairperson, Khaya Magaxa, said Zille had humiliated the province and its people with her continuous Twitter attack on people of colour.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane announced that Zille was suspended from all party activities following her controversial tweets about colonialism but in an about turn DA issued a statement that Federal Executive had written to Zille to signify its intention to temporarily suspend her from party activities until the conclusion of the disciplinary proceedings instituted against her.

 

Also making headlines:

SACP says Zuma 'central' in auctioning off national sovereignty.

And, Presidency says Zuma does not own a 'Dubai palace’.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today