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Making headlines: Zandile Gumede sworn in as MPL in KZN legislature, Saps Marikana planning was poor, says Judge Farlam and, Mali's president resigns and dissolves parliament after mutiny

Zandile Gumede sworn in as MPL in KZN legislature

Corruption accused ANC heavyweight and former eThekwini metro mayor Zandile Gumede was sworn in as a member of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature today.

She replaces former ANC KZN spokesperson Ricardo Mthembu, who died in KwaDukuza on 8 July.

Gumede is embroiled in a corruption case in Durban. Her legal team has complained about the delays after her last appearance was again postponed.

Saps Marikana planning was poor, says Judge Farlam

Retired South African judge who chaired the commission of inquiry into the Marikana killings, Judge Ian Farlam has said it was still questionable why the South African Police Service abandoned their original plan during the Marikana strike in 2012, which left 34 miners dead.

Saps members shot 112 mineworkers on August 16, 2012 at Marikana in the North West province during an operation to disperse about 3 000 striking workers from the Lonmin mine.

Farlam was speaking during an Institute for Security Studies webinar on recommendations coming out the incident at Marikana, eight years after what has come to be known as the Marikana Massacre.

He said Saps’ planning was poor and the police had no proper training on handling the situation, adding that it had taken his Commission a long time to unearth the true facts.

Mali's president resigns and dissolves parliament after mutiny

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint at a military camp near the capital Bamako.

According to reports, Keita resigned in a brief address broadcast on state television after troops seized him along with Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and other top officials.

Since June, people in Bamako have been taking to the streets to demand Keita’s departure, blaming him for corruption and worsening security in the north and centre of the West African country, where Islamist militants are active.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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