A team of experts from West African regional economic grouping the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), said on Tuesday Liberia would need about -billion to rehabilitate its power sector, ravaged by long years of civil war. ”Resuscitation of Liberia’s power system requires a lot of funding,” said a seven-member team.
The injury status within the Springbok squad is still uncertain two days ahead of the team’s departure for their overseas leg of the Tri-Nations. This was revealed at a Springbok press briefing in Johannesburg on Tuesday with assistant coaches Gert Smal and Allistair Coetzee.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s latest performance audit of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has revealed serious financial and administrative inefficiencies. The audit tabled in Parliament on Tuesday identified financial and administrative inefficiencies in the management of moneys in trust. It revealed that maintenance and inheritance moneys intended for the poor were not being effectively managed.
The White House on Monday unveiled plans to sell Pakistan up to 36 F-16 fighters in a deal that could total -billion and which drew an unhappy response from United States ally India. Washington had blocked the sale of F-16s to Pakistan for 15 years to protest its nuclear weapons programme, but gave the green light in March 2005 to reward the South Asian ally for its help in the ”war on terror”.
Pirates have attacked two United Nations-chartered vessels in the Malacca Strait off the coast of tsunami-hit Aceh province in Indonesia, an international maritime watchdog said on Tuesday. Both ships were ferrying construction materials to Indonesia for the UN’s World Food Programme when pirates boarded the ships under the cover of darkness on Sunday.
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Football’s world governing body will help South Africa organise the 2010 World Cup but believes the country is more than capable of staging the event, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday. ”South Africa is a multi-cultural country of different tribes … and you do need a certain kind of intelligence to bring this all together,” Blatter said.
Spiralling fuel costs, a strike and a later-than-planned introduction of new routes saw South African Airways’ (SAA) operating profit for the year ended March dwindle from R1-billion to just R300-million, it was revealed on Tuesday. Fuel costs rocketed by a whopping 51,5% over the 12-month period, resulting in a 17,7% spike in operating expenses.
The Democratic Alliance has demanded that the Minister of Safety and Security, Charles Nqakula, and the national commissioner of police immediately make public the broad topics for discussion at their meetings and what steps they envisage in the fight against crime, DA spokesperson on safety and security Roy Jankielsohn said on Tuesday.
The recent spate of violent criminal attacks has raised South Africa’s security threat profile, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Tuesday. ”They are concerns that pervade both business and public sentiment, and reflect the low level of public confidence in the criminal justice system,” Sacob said in a media statement.
Uganda will enter talks with leaders of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas without preconditions if they give up arms and denounce war, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. The government will also be willing to pardon rebel commander Joseph Kony and his four commanders who are wanted for trial by the United Nation’s International Criminal Court.