May 12, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Natalie Greve.
Making headlines:

Cosatu tells Numsa not to celebrate its ‘hollow victory’ in the High Court.

The World Food Programme says drought-hit Southern Africa is at risk of food shortages.

And, there’s a medium to high chance of load-shedding today.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has lashed out at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), accusing it of celebrating a "hollow victory" following the High Court in Johannesburg's order that the trade union federation must hold its special national congress in July.

The court ordered that the congress take place on July 13 and 14, and Cosatu and its president Sidumo Dlamini must notify Cosatu members of the congress by June 28.

If they do not comply, Numsa and seven other unions have the right to go back to court with only one week's notice, according to the draft order.

However, Cosatu claims this is no victory for Numsa and said its special national congress would go ahead without Numsa, because it was no longer an affiliate union.

The World Food Programme (or WFP) says Southern Africa faces possible food shortages over the next few months due to a severe drought in the 'maize belt' of South Africa, where a lack of rain has caused crop failure rates of over 50%.

In South Africa, the WFP said maize production was estimated to have dropped by a third compared with last year, putting it on track for a harvest of 9.665-million tonnes, its worst in eight years.

Besides South Africa, which produces more than 40% of regional maize, the drought was also likely to hit harvests in southern Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi and Madagascar.

The problems in landlocked and impoverished Malawi were compounded by heavy rains and flooding in early January which destroyed crops and roads.

The chances of load-shedding on Tuesday are medium for the day and high for the evening, Eskom said in a tweet on Tuesday.

On Monday Eskom implemented stage 1 load-shedding just after 16:00 without warning, only notifying the media and public about half an hour later.

It moved to stage 2 load-shedding within an hour, blaming a further shortage of generation capacity on additional units that had to be taken out of service for unplanned maintenance caused by technical faults.

The prognosis for the rest of the week doesn't look better as data from Eskom's system status bulletin shows its capacity to meet demand is expected to be short by almost 3 000 MW during the evenings this week.

Also making headlines:

The Presidency confirmed that it had stopped the inquiry into the fitness of National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana to hold office butsaid the two parties were ''engaging''.

Chad's President Idriss Deby said the fight against islamist Boko Haram insurgents was being hindered by the failure of Nigeria and Chad’s troops to work together.

And, a survey reveals that a majority of South Africans are taking money out of their retirement savings to pay off debt‚ despite incurring tax and having less to live on once they’re on pension.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.