May 11, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Government considers plans to get schooling back on track in Limpopo.

ANC hits out at DA and de Lille.

And, Ministers met with banks over Guptas.

 

Mobile classrooms and winter school camps were being considered to help thousands of pupils in Vuwani’s Vhembe district in Limpopo.

Protests turned violent in recent weeks, leading to more than 20 schools being damaged or burnt down.

Vuwani residents were protesting against a government decision to incorporate their area into a new local municipality in Vhembe.

Hundreds of pupils had been left in limbo and faced an uncertain future after classrooms, desks, learning materials and other equipment was reduced to ashes during the violent protest.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs minister Des Van Rooyen said government was considering making use of mobile classrooms and the introduction of additional lessons to offset the impact of the violent protest action.

Yesterday Vuwani was declared a disaster area.

 

Following Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille’s criticism of the ANC in the Western Cape, the party responded yesterday, lashing out at the DA and its mayoral candidate, De Lille.

De Lille said the ANC undermined voters’ intelligence, were full of hot air, lacked an elections manifesto, and constantly tried to paint the DA-led city as racist which she said was the ANC’s only campaign tactic.

ANC provincial spokesperson Yonela Diko responded that the DA was unashamedly the biggest aiders of racism in the Western Cape.
In reference to one of the pillars of the Cape Town manifesto – that of building an “opportunity city” – Diko said racism in the province determined who actually received the opportunities.

Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant conceded yesterday that a meeting between cabinet ministers and South Africa’s four banks had taken place.

However, she did not want to provide further details, as the ministers were still to report back to cabinet on what had transpired.

Oliphant responded to a question during a media briefing following her budget vote earlier yesterday afternoon at parliament.

 

Also making headlines:

Solidarity to announce details of case against government pension fund.

Congo to select developer for Inga 3 hydropower plant by October.

DA’s Gavin Davis said Hendrik Verwoerd's policies on “bantu education” did not die with him.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today