June, 3 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:

ANC members dissatisfied with elections candidate list
Angolan president appoints daughter as head of state oil firm
And, IEC says voters’ roll certified with 26.3-million registered voters

Scores of disgruntled ANC members gathered outside the party’s headquarters Luthuli House in Johannesburg on Thursday to voice their dissatisfaction over the party’s list of councillor candidates for the upcoming local government elections.

About 200 protesters were unhappy with the party’s procedure in selecting candidates who would stand as councillors in the August 3 polls.

Secretary general of the ANC, Gwede Mantashe, addressed the media on the ANC’s progress inside Luthuli House while the protest went on unabated outside.

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said some of the issues raised by disgruntled members and protesters had nothing to do with the list, but the anger was partly due to corrections the party had to make.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has appointed his daughter as head of state oil firm Sonangol, as the government aims to turn around the struggling company after low crude prices hit revenue.

Citing a presidential decree, a state radio said Isabel dos Santos would head the company, after the president fired the entire Sonangol board and appointed a new one.

Angola said in April it would restructure Sonangol to "increase efficiency and profitability.

Sonangol said in February that debt owed to foreign oil companies had soared and it expected a very difficult year.
Angola imports around 6-million cubic metres of refined products a year, according to national statistics.

Chief Electoral Officer Mosotho Moepya has certified the voters’ roll which contains the names of 26.3-million South Africans eligible to cast their ballots in the municipal elections on August 3, the Electoral Commission of South Africa said.

According to a statement by the IEC, 2.6-million more South Africans have registered to vote in the upcoming local government polls, representing an 11.3 percent increase from 2011.

In line with population trends and previous elections, approximately 55 percent of the voters or 14.47-million are women compared to 45 percent men or 11.87-million.

Gauteng has the highest number of voters with 6.2-million certified voters followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 5.4-million, the Eastern Cape with 3.3-million and the Western Cape with 3-million. Approximately 69 percent of all voters are located in these four provinces.

Limpopo has 2.5-million registered voters, followed by Mpumalanga with 1.9-million, the North West with 1.7-million, the Free State with 1.4-million, and the Northern Cape, the country’s biggest province, with only 621,310.

Also making headlines:
ANC calls SACP's faction talk 'irresponsible'
And, DA says ANC trying to sneak Fransman back in

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