September 08, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Overwhelming political party support for incoming Public Protector

Habib says 'Manyi doesn't understand how varsities are run'

And, former IEC head Tlakula gets the nod for information regulator top post

Political parties yesterday backed Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane to replace Thuli Madonsela as public protector and rubbished the DA's opposition to her appointment.

Mkhwebane should be given a chance to do the job, parties said before the National Assembly voted on her appointment.

Cope abstained from voting. 

She received an overwhelming 263 votes. A total of 79 Members of Parliament voted against her. One MP abstained. 

Presenting the report of the ad hoc committee that selected and interviewed the candidates, chairperson Dr Makhosi Khoza said public interest in the process had been unparalleled.

 

The University of Witwatersrand vice chancellor Adam Habib has rejected calls by Progressive Professionals Forum leader Jimmy Manyi for lecturers to develop their own course content to lower tuition fees.

Habib said Manyi clearly didn’t understand how universities were run.

He said content presented to students had undergone vigorous processes and that was how higher learning institutions functioned.

Manyi said he had been told that content cost universities 50% of their expenditure.

 

The National Assembly has voted in favour of former IEC chairperson Pansy Tlakula as chair of the newly-formed information regulator, despite fierce objection from opposition parties.

The matter was first put to a vote in May, but had to be postponed as there were too many empty seats in the National Assembly to secure a majority.

Yesterday, the ANC and the UDM were the only parties in favour of her appointment, while the DA, the EFF and IFP were fiercely against it.

 

Also making headlines:

Ramaphosa said state institutions should not shoot at each other.

Religious leaders pledged support for Pravin Gordhan.

And, Ramaphosa warned BBBEE 'fronters' with jail time.

Don’t forget to download the Polity apps for iPhone and android devices
That’s a roundup of news making headlines today