Daily podcast – December 4, 2015

4th December 2015 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Daily podcast – December 4, 2015

Photo by: Reuters

December 03, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Bruce Montiea.
Making headlines:

Student protests could pick up again in 2016
Liberia's last two Ebola patients recover
And, the Khoi and San protest at Parliament for recognition

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Students representatives from several universities said they could not guarantee that students would not protest when academic activities resumed in 2016.

The group met with Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Higher Education in Johannesburg on Thursday, where they advised that it was best that resolutions be made before the new year.

Students who took to the streets several weeks ago all over the country demanded a zero percent fee hike next year.

Student representatives said they took their directions from the students and could not prevent them from demonstrating against their dissatisfaction.

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande attended the first few hours of the students' round table discussions, where he warned the representatives to be careful of third party forces.

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Liberia released its last two known Ebola cases from hospital on Thursday as it starts a new countdown to declaring itself free of the virus for a third time, health officials said.

The two patients released from the Paynesville Ebola Treatment Units were the father and younger brother of the presumed index case, a 15-year-old Nathan Gbotoe who died from the disease last week.

However, new cases could still emerge in Liberia since there are 165 contacts still under quarantine, of whom more than 30 are deemed high risk, health officials told Reuters.

Liberia had been the West African country with known cases. Neighbour Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free in November while Guinea's last known case recovered two weeks ago.

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Representatives of the Khoi and the San demanded on Thursday that government stop all land claims until their land is returned to them.

During protests at Parliament Stanley Peterson from the National Khoi San Council said the government must stop calling them "coloured".

He has already won a case in the Equality Court against Northern Cape Premier Sylia Lucas to not call them Hottentots.

They want to be recognised as the first people of South Africa and they want their land claims to be recognised first.

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Also making headlines:
ANC still in majority in Tlokwe, says mayor
And, Parliament needs new policy on protests

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