April 30, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says other African nations should stop their citizens from migrating to South Africa.

Togo's main opposition reject Faure Gnassingbe’s victory.

And, Eskom reaches an agreement with ten nonpaying municipalities.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said other African nations should stop their citizens from migrating to South Africa to prevent violence against foreigners.

A wave of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa has claimed seven lives in Durban and Johannesburg over the past four weeks. The South African government has deployed troops to stop the fighting.

After a summit of the Southern African Development Community (or SADC) called to discuss industrialisation in Southern Africa, South African President Jacob Zuma had briefed regional leaders on the violence.

Zuma told the meeting that his government would educate its citizens to be tolerant of foreigners and would keep its security forces on alert to prevent future attacks.

Mugabe, the current SADC chairperson said neighbouring countries they had to work with South Afrca to resolve the matter.

An estimated one-million Zimbabweans live in South Africa, after fleeing economic crisis and political violence at home over the last 15 years. 

Togo's main opposition challenger on Wednesday rejected the results of the country's presidential election after incumbent Faure Gnassingbe was declared the winner, reviving fears of post-election violence.

Jean-Pierre Fabre said results announced by the election commission late on Tuesday were fraudulent and did not match those from polling stations compiled by his party.

He said the results from local electoral commissions where there were no major issues showed that his party won by a large margin, adding that this hard-fought victory, despite all kinds of obstacles, was a victory for Togo.

Togo's election commission had announced that provisional results showed that Gnassingbe won the vote with more than 1.2-million votes, or 58.75% of the total.

The April 25 vote was largely peaceful, but tensions have risen as results trickled in. Hundreds died in unrest after the election in 2005.

Gnassingbe has been president since 2005, when his father died after 38 years in charge of the former French colony. He won re-election in another disputed poll in 2010.

While State-owned power utility Eskom has reached payment agreements with ten of the top 20 defaulting municipalities, the balance would face scheduled power interruptions from June for nonpayment.

The 20 local municipalities aggregately owed Eskom about R3.68-billion for bulk electricity supply, which had been reduced by R54-million since the power utility threatened cut-offs for these municipalities earlier in April.

The total municipal arrear debt greater than 30 days was R4.67-billion at the end of March.

Eskom acting CEO Brian Molefe said Eskom had reached a point where it could no longer continue to provide power without receiving payment in return. He encouraged all defaulting municipalities to follow suit.

The Nama Khoi municipality, in the Northern Cape; the Free State-based Nketoana, Dihlabeng and Nala municipalities; the Thabazimbi municipality, in Limpopo; the City of Matlosana and the Madibeng and Naledi municipalities, in the North West and the Randfontein and Westonaria municipalities, in Gauteng, would not have their electricity supply cut as long as the terms of the payment agreements were adhered to.

Molefe warned that if these conditions were not met, interruptions to supply would be implemented without further notice.

Eskom, meanwhile, planned to implement regulated interruption of electricity supply to the defaulting Emalahleni, Govan Mbeki, Lekwa, Msukaligwa, Maluti-a-Phofung, Matjhabeng and Ngwathe local municipalities, in Mpumalanga and the Free State, from June 5.

It was not clear if Eskom was in negotaiations with the remaining three municipalities of the top 20 defaulters.

Also making headlines:
PRASA rail CEO Mosenngwa Mofi said the driver of a train that crashed into a stationary train in Denver, Johannesburg, leaving one person dead, passed a red warning signal.

Public health experts say investing in public toilets could reduce the number of sexual assaults in South African townships by almost a third and lower the economic cost of the crime on society.

Libyan protesters have shut down an eastern gas field and threatened to close the western Wafa oil and gas field, which would stop gas exports to Italy.

And, Zimbabwean president and SADC chair Robert Mugabe has called for value addition and beneficiation in the poverty stricken region.

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