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Daily podcast – 10 October, 2014

Daily podcast – 10 October 2014

10th October 2014

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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October 10, 2014
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making Headlines:

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki says South Africa should be part of the rising African continent.

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Fears that the Ebola outbreak will spread globally rise with the deteriorating health of an infected Spanish nurse.

And, Southern Africa has cut its power deficit to 3 000 megawatts and will add 27 000 megawatts by 2018.
 

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Former president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday urged South Africa to be part of the rising African continent.

He noted that although there were obstacles facing Africa, much had already been achieved, emphasising that political cohesion on the continent was important. He went on to say that acknowledging there were problems was already a step in the right direction of unlocking the wealth of the African continent.

He noted that there was commitment on the African continent to stop outbreaks of violence. He said it was important to take steps to stop the fighting but also to ask questions on why the fighting started in the first place. 


Fears that the Ebola outbreak will spread globally rose on Thursday with the deteriorating health of an infected Spanish nurse and a British man who died in Macedonia being tested for the virus.

At least 26 members of the US House of Representatives want travel bans and visa restrictions on citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. These impoverished West African nations have been hardest hit since the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

The calls came a day after the death in Texas of the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US and after the US and Britain announced they would start screening many airline passengers arriving from affected countries for fever and other Ebola symptoms.

The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever and is spread through direct contact with body fluids from an infected person, who would suffer severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. About half of people infected have died in the current outbreak.

 

Southern Africa has cut its power deficit to 3 000 megawatts in the last year and will add another 27 000 megawatts by 2018. This is as countries ramp up electricity generation to meet growing demand.

An analyst at Southern Africa Power Pool Musara Beta said the region currently has a peak demand of 54 000 megawatts against a generation capacity of 51 000 megawatts, narrowing the shortfall from 7 000 megawatts a year ago as new power comes on stream and more people use energy-saving bulbs.

The analyst went on to say that they are planning to commission 27 000 megawatts in the next four years to 2018, adding that the projects were still under construction. He said most of the new electricity would come from South Africa, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia, adding that power generation would surpass demand by the end of 2016.

Beta said Zimbabwe is one of the countries in the region hardest hit by electricity shortages, which has forced many home owners and industries to endure long hours of power cuts.


Also making headlines:

A United Nations peacekeeper from Pakistan was killed in an ambush in the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday bringing the death toll in 48 hours of fighting to at least nine.

More than R7-billion in funding for key infrastructure projects in KwaZulu-Natal is waiting in the wings, with billions more likely to follow the second KwaZulu-Natal Infrastructure Funding Fair.

And, Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf brings money and hygiene messages to Ebola’s ‘hot zone’.

Also on Polity:

Don’t miss the video interview with EWN reporters Barry Bateman and Mandy Wiener on their book Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp story.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter[@Polity.ZA]

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.

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