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African press review 30 September 2015

Gauteng continues to hold the grim record as South Africa's deadliest province; and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari takes charge of the oil ministry as he sends picks for the cabinet to the Senate for confirmation.

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We start in Nigeria where President Muhammadu Buhari ended speculation about who is likely to get the juicy oil minister’s post by announcing that he would head the much sought Petroleum Resources himself.

Punch reports that Buhari dropped the hint during an interview in his hotel with foreign journalists on Tuesday on the sidelines of his participation in the 70th United Nations General Assembly.

According to the newspaper, Nigeria’s petroleum sector has been enmeshed in corruption with millions of dollars said to be missing from the National Petroleum Corporation, which forced President Buhari to sack the entire management of the company.

Meanwhile, Punch says it is now able to report that President Buhari will submit the long-awaited list of his nominees for cabinet positions to the Senate this Wednesday.
As the 30 September deadline set by Buhari to submit the list of his cabinet to the Senate runs out, Vanguard gathered some of the funniest posts collected on social networks.

One posted on his wall that Buhari needed to create a Boko Haram ministry and Oby Ezekweili made minister (of Boko Haram). Another was longing to “change English for Nigeria!!!”, tweeting that he was anxious to see ex-first lady Patience Jonathan on the list as the minister of education.

If you are someone who enjoys playing with death, then read the latest South African crime statistics, published by the Mail and Guardian. According to the publication one is more likely to be murdered in Gauteng, the Western Cape, Limpompo and Kwazulu Natal than in the Northern Cape.

Speaking to the media after the release of the annual crime statistics released in Parliament on Tuesday, National Police commissioner Riah Phiyega said the province with the highest murder rate increase in the country was Gauteng Province. More than 17,000 people were killed around the country.

He attributed the disturbing trends to a dramatic 10.4 per cent rise in murder and armed robberies and contact crimes, with 3,671 people killed in Gauteng between 1 April 2014 and March 2015, up by 346 murders from the year before.

The South African police chief also revealed that in Gauteng, 49 of the murders were committed by children between the ages of 10 and 17.

The Johannesburg Star takes up the case of a notorious gang specialising in the car-jacking of rented vehicles facing long prison sentences for the murder of one of their victims.

The court in the southern Johannesburg suburb of Palm Ridge was told how the syndicate surrendered their victims at gun point in front of their gates, advising them not to die for vehicles they did not own.

Some vehicles were valued at about 13,000 euros but were sold for as little as 440 euros, the judge said as he slapped the burglars with 21 charges that included racketeering, murder, attempted murder, robbery with aggravated circumstances, illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition.

And Mail and Guardian weighs the Springboks prospects of reaching the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup in England after their shock defeat by Japan in their opening match. They did the right thing by not bending to the psyche of defeat, praising the team for its maturity, the level of preparedness, confidence in coaching and personality characteristics.

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