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

South African foreign investment confidence could suffer as a result of the xenophobic attacks in Durban.

Ten people have been injured and one has been killed in the second day of protests in Guinea's capital .

And, Eskom says deferred generator maintenance has caused an overload of unplanned repairs, resulting in a week of darkness for South Africa.

 

Macro-economist Dr Harold Ngalawa said South African foreign investment confidence would suffer as a result of the xenophobic attacks in Durban.

Xenophobic attacks on African immigrants has escalated over the past week in the KwaZulu-Natal city, with the country’s security cluster announcing measures to bring the situation under control.

Ngalawa said foreign investors took the stability of a country very seriously.

He also said that an economy characterised by violence and lawlessness was not good for investment, adding that xenophobia was typically both violent and lawless.

He said the township micro-economy would also suffer, with prices climbing due to the eradication of “elements” of competition.

 

Gunfire erupted in several neighbourhoods in Guinea's capital, Conakry, on Tuesday as hundreds of opposition supporters clashed with security forces for a second day of protests over the timing of elections.

The government said about 10 people had been injured, including one with bullet wounds. At least six people were hit by bullets on Monday. The government denied security forces shot at people protesting and called for an investigation.

Opposition parties have called for citizens to protest to try to pressure the government to hold a local election ahead of a presidential vote, as laid out in a 2013 agreement between Guinea's rival political factions.

The government, however, does not recognise the clause on the order of voting and has set the presidential election for October 11, with the local election due early next year.

 

Deferred generator maintenance has caused an overload of unplanned repairs, resulting in a week of darkness for South Africa.

Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said that unplanned outages resulted in 9 500 megawatts  being cut off the grid, while planned outages accounted for 5 000 MW.

After implementing a third day of stage 2 load-shedding at 06:00am on Tuesday, Eskom escalated the outages to stage 3 at 6:00pm.

Phasiwe said that in addition to the technical problems experienced earlier on Tuesday, Eskom encountered more outages, as the power stations were being run for longer durations and were being run harder than normal.

 

Also making headlines:

Eskom will implement stage 2 load shedding from 06:00 am this morning, and this is likely to continue until 10:00 pm this evening.

The concentrated solar power industry in South Africa has called for clarity on connection to the power grid, as well as certainty about timeframes.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have discussed holding a "major military manoeuvre" in Saudi Arabia with other Gulf states, after the two countries discussed the progress of a Saudi-led campaign against Shi'ite militias in neighbouring Yemen.

Schools in Sierra Leone reopened this week after closing for nine months due to an Ebola epidemic that killed 3 800 people. 

And, Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai told Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants that they will never be forgotten.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.