January 11, 2022

For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.

Making headlines: Matric exam results won't be published on public platforms and in media, Busa’s offer of resources to NPA may include private prosecutors and, UN starts talks in Sudan to resolve post-coup crisis

Matric exam results won't be published on public platforms and in media

Matric exam results will no longer be published on media platforms, the Department of Basic Education has announced.

The results will be released on 21 January.

The department cited the Protection of Personal Information Act as the reason, saying the dissemination of pupils' personal information would be in contravention of the act.

Department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said matric results will be available at schools as in previous years.

Busa’s offer of resources to NPA may include private prosecutors

Business Unity South Africa has resolved to support the National Prosecuting Authority with resources to enable it to “urgently prepare cases” against those identified in a recently released report arising from the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.

Such resources could include private prosecutors, Busa said in a statement released following a special meeting of its board held on 10 January.

This follows the board meeting convened in response to Part One of the inquiry’s report.

BUSA CEO Cas Coovadia said his organisation will coordinate initiatives by its members into a serious and concerted mechanism to provide necessary resources to the NPA to urgently prepare cases to prosecute those identified in the report.

UN starts talks in Sudan to resolve post-coup crisis

The United Nations said it was starting consultations in Sudan to try to salvage the country's move to democracy after a military coup.

UN officials were contacting parties to look for a way forward, and the army had raised no objections to the initiative, UN special representative Volker Perthes told reporters.

The military takeover in October wrecked a power-sharing arrangement with civilian leaders that was meant to pave the way to elections after the overthrow of leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

The coup also halted a Western-backed opening up of the economy after decades of isolation and sanctions.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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