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Daily Podcast – November 30, 2015

Daily Podcast – November 30, 2015

30th November 2015

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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

Archbishop Desmond Tutu says COP21 should address global inequality.

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Guinea's last Ebola case leaves hospital.

And, the DA says fire SAA’s Dudu Miyeni and sell SAA. 

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The COP21 conference on climate change, scheduled to take place in Paris this week should also focus on global inequality, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said.

Failure to do so would send a direct message of contempt to poorer nations and people, who can’t afford the costs of mitigating the impacts of increasing temperatures, he said.

"It will trigger unprecedented economic and refugee crises, and dramatically deepen global insecurity," he added.

Almost 150 heads of state and government, including President Jacob Zuma, are expected to assemble for the 21st Conference of the Parties.

 

A one-month-old baby girl who was Guinea's last reported Ebola case left hospital on Saturday putting the country on course to be declared free of the deadly virus.

Guinea will become officially Ebola-free after 42 days if no new cases are reported following the recovery of baby Nubia who was thought to be the first baby to survive after being born to an infected mother.

Nubia's mother died shortly after childbirth from blood loss.

An Ebola outbreak had killed about 11 300 people mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it began two years ago.

Liberia was now the only country with confirmed cases after the virus re-emerged for a third time.

 

It is no longer tenable for the people of South Africa to continue to fund South African Airways and SAA board chairperson Dudu Miyeni’s perpetual mismanagement, the DA said yesterday.

DA spokesperson Natasha Mazzone said a report in a news agency reaffirmed the DA’s call for Miyeni to be fired and for the state-owned airline to be privatised.

The news report revealed that SAA’s annual financial losses had increased from R2.5-billion to R4.7-billion compared to the previous financial year.

Mazzone said she would approach Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and implore him to begin the process of selling off SAA, as it was no longer tenable for citizens to continue to fund SAA and Miyeni’s mismanagement.

Earlier this month SAA had made a further loss of R648-million in the first six months of the current financial year and was looking for further guarantees from government to the tune of R5-billion so it could finalise its 2014/15 financial statements.

Mazzone said it would be amiss to label SAA a state asset as it was in fact a state liability.

Also making headlines:

Burkina Faso voted in an election to choose the country's first new president in decades, a year after long time leader Blaise Compaore was toppled in a popular uprising in which demonstrators faced down the security forces.

And, the Presidency said South Africa was already feeling the negative effects of global warming ahead of the Paris climate change summit.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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