February 3, 2015.
For Creamer in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Eskom implements stage one rolling power cuts.

A car bomb explodes in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe.

And, the Gauteng provincial government hopes to pursue infrastructural developments in partnership with the private sector.

 

Stage one rolling power cuts have been implemented on Tuesday morning, power utility Eskom said.

Spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said the system was severely constrained leaving Eskom no choice but to implement stage one load shedding from 10am to 10pm.

The power grid was under pressure on Monday after one of Koeberg's units, which produces 900 megawatts, was taken out of service due to a technical fault.

The unit was still down on Tuesday.

 

A car bomb went off near a stadium in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Monday, a few minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a party rally. One person was killed and 18 wounded.

The bomb exploded about 200 metres from the stadium, engulfing the car in flames, while residents fled in panic.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, although suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has attacked Gombe several times.

Nigeria is due to hold a presidential election on February 14, pitting the ruling People's Democratic Party's Jonathan against former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari for the opposition All Progressives Congress.

 

The Gauteng provincial government has outlined seven key areas where it intends pursuing infrastructural developments in partnership with the private sector under its so-called “transform, modernise and reindustrialise” vision.

During a recent interaction with JSE-listed companies, Premier David Makhura said the province has planned to spend R94-billion on infrastructure in the next three years.

He also stressed that the province was seeking to leverage the financial, technical and human capabilities of business through various public–private partnerships (or PPPs).

Amongst the seven PPP’s was the revitalisation of township economies in the province, the aerotropolis, which would be anchored in Ekurhuleni and an expansion and extension of the Gautrain service.

 

Also making headlines:

Sudan's mainstream opposition has called for a nationwide boycott of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections that they say are guaranteed to lead to a renewal of the 25-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir.

Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly haemorrhagic fever and prevent future outbreaks.

Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail and left Egypt after 400 days in prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group.

A bystander was killed and three people were wounded in a shootout between soldiers and two former bodyguards of Lesotho's prime minister, raising tensions before elections due this month.

And, the International Monetary Fund signed off on a $688-million, one-year loan programme for Kenya, which is meant to support the government's economic reforms and help it weather possible outside shocks.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.