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Daily Podcast – September 15, 2015

Daily Podcast – September 15, 2015

15th September 2015

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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September 15, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says South Africa's nuclear procurement will be transparent.

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Hundreds of people are quarantined as Ebola returns to the northern Sierra Leone district.

And, the Democratic Alliance wants to join the Economic Freedom Fighters in Constitutional Court over the Nkandla challenge.

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South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene pledged on Tuesday that the country's nuclear programme and its most expensive procurement deal would be transparent.

His statement dispelled concerns from opposition parties that the government was moving ahead without proper disclosure.

South Africa hopes to install 9 600 megawatts of nuclear power in the next 15 years to address chronic electricity shortages.

The country currently suffers regular power cuts and is forced to rely on coal fired-generators.

An energy advisor to the government said in June that South Africa was considering using reactors from Russia's Rosatom and from Westinghouse Electric in the the US for its nuclear fleet expansion.

 

Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone on Monday after a 16-year-old girl died of Ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission, the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

Sierra Leone celebrated last month when it discharged the last remaining Ebola patient from its treatment centres. Since then, a new spate of cases has erupted, leaving two dead and five people in treatment.

The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed more than 11 000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and neighbouring Liberia since it began in December 2013. 

Liberia was declared Ebola-free this month but growing evidence that the virus may survive longer than previously thought in sperm had raised fears of fresh outbreaks.

The teenage girl, Kadiatu Thullah, died on Sunday at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Conteh, head of the Ebola Response Centre for the district of Bombali in northern Sierra Leone, said that some 690 people in the village of Robuya, where Kadiatu lived, would be isolated for three weeks.

 


The Democratic Alliance (or DA) hopes to join the Economic Freedom Fighters (or EFF) in a Constitutional Court application to have the National Assembly and the police minister's handling of the Nkandla report declared unlawful and unconstitutional.

In an affidavit filed at the Constitutional Court on Monday by DA federal chairperson James Selfe, the party said its own concerns over the handling of the R246-million spent on upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's home overlapped with those of the EFF.

DA said it would be in the public interest to join the EFF on February 9, 2016 – the date set for their application.

The opposition party would submit that Police Minister Nathi Nhleko had no right to compile a report on behalf of President Zuma, after Public Protector Thuli Madonsela had asked him to account for the upgrades.   

Nhleko declared that Zuma owed nothing, because features such as a cattle culvert and a swimming pool were actually related to keeping the president secure.

 

Also making headlines:

US Senators have written to President Jacob Zuma urging him to budge on US poultry imports to avoid South Africa losing lucrative export benefits to the US.

The South African Democratic Teachers Union expressed concerned over divisions in the ruling party, in KZN.

And, Eskom said there was currently no load-shedding taking place. 

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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