August 6, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

The Nkandla committee hits a hurdle on conclusions. 

Chad says its security forces killed seven Boko Haram militants in a clash.

And, Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi will act as mediator between Eskom and Glencore.

Opposition parties on Wednesday begged for more time to thrash out the findings of the parliamentary ad hoc committee mulling Police Minister Nathi Nhleko’s report on the president’s Nkandla home.

This is after they predictably found themselves in disagreement with the African National Congress (or ANC).

African Christian Democratic Party MP Steve Swart said there was no way they could agree with the absence in the proposal that the president unduly benefited from the upgrades. 

The disagreement arose just two days before the deadline of Friday for the committee to submit its final report on Nhleko’s controversial document, which concluded that President Jacob Zuma was not liable to reimburse the state for any luxuries added to his private home in rural KwaZulu-Natal as a part of a security upgrade that ended up costing more than R215-million.

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela however found, contrary to Nhleko, that Zuma had unduly benefited from the project and needed to pay for a part of it from his own pocket.

Chadian forces killed seven Boko Haram militants in a clash on Wednesday as the country tried to secure islands on Lake Chad used by the insurgents as hideouts and bases to launch attacks.

Chad said last week it killed 117 Boko Haram fighters as part of a two-week offensive on the lake that borders Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.  

Thousands of soldiers have been deployed to tackle the militants whose six-year-old insurgency has killed hundreds in recent months.

Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi will act as mediator between electricity parastatal Eskom, coal miner Glencore and the Department of Public Enterprises. This is owing to Eskom claiming that the coal supplied by Glencore’s subsidiary Optimum Coal is below standard.

At a media briefing Ramatlhodi said he had been in touch with Eskom custodian Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown and Eskom acting CEO Brian Molefe with regard to their specific issues.

Ramatlhodi said both parties had made their assertions and he was mediating the situation, adding that it was not ideal to shut the mine down because that could contribute to job losses.

Also making headlines:

Eskom has implemented stage 1 load-shedding which is likely to continue until 10pm this evening.

Investigators have established links between two terrorist attacks that killed 59 foreign tourists on a beach and at a museum in Tunisia.

A migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean sea killing at least 25 people.

And, Egypt opens the Suez Canal expansion to high hopes and some doubts.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.