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New system to keep lights on
Joburg Mayor Parks Tau announces the new system flanked by City Power Chairperson Frank Chikane and MD Sicelo Xulu.
‘As long as communities are participants in this programme, we can begin to keep the lights on for many hours’ Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za
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he City of Joburg is to introduce a new system to mitigate the impact of load shedding and help keep the lights on, Mayor Parks Tau announced on Tuesday. The Mayor said the project, which is known as ‘load limiting’, will be rolled out to thousands of Johannesburg households that have been equipped with smart meters from the beginning of next month.
The announcement was made at a media briefing at Aspen Hills Nature Estate, south of Joburg, where the system was tested. “City Power has already installed smart meters in over 65 000 households in the past 18 months. A further 150 000 households are expected to be equipped with the smart meters by the end of October this year,” he said. Mayor Tau explained that residents in households where smart meters had been installed would receive an
SMS on their smartphones, advising them to reduce power consumption at a particular time. “It will be up to you to switch off those electrical appliances that you don’t need. If you ignore the signal, your power will trip for 30 seconds and will switch on again. If you continue ignoring the warning signal, the power will switch off completely,” he said. The power will remain switched off until the load shedding period in the particular area has lapsed. It is estimated that the City could save
us much as 775MW if all the 335 000 households with smart meters were to apply the system. Mayor Tau appealed to the city’s residents to make the project successful by voluntarily reducing power consumption. “As long as communities are participants in this programme, we can begin to keep the lights on for many hours. It is a simple system but it depends on the cooperation of residents,” he said. For now, the system will be applied in residential properties with
smart meters. The City has already initiated talks with business leaders with a view to extending the system to the business environment. Mayor Tau said the City was also looking at other initiatives to mitigate load shedding and generate power, which included using the ripple control relay system, efficient use of geysers and having generators on standby. “The City has used the ripple control relay system successfully to reduce the pressure on the power grid,” the Mayor added.
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Through such gatherings the City hopes to involve residents in Joburg’s future.
City launches IDP meetings Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za
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ast Saturday the City of Joburg started conducting some of the 23 imbizos lined up for the next few weeks, in which residents and other stakeholders will participate in an Integrated Development Planning (IDP) process to help shape the city’s short, medium and long-term future, according to Mayor Parks Tau. He said the IDP process demonstrates the City’s determination to reconnect with the citizenry. “Integrated development requires the involvement of the broader public to ensure a consented approach to development and service provision. We call on all residents and other stakeholders to participate in the process to enable Joburg to make their voices heard.” Issues expected to come under discussion include spatial planning, disaster management, finances, performance
targets and economic development. Residents will have the opportunity to comment on the draft 2015-2016 Medium-Term Budget and Integrated Development Plan tabled at a council meeting on March 25. Included in the document are the City’s 2015-2016 proposals on tariffs for services such as water, electricity and refuse removal, as well as draft property rates and taxes. Mayor Tau said the process will culminate in a stakeholder summit on April 25, at a venue still to be announced. “Submissions and proposals from the various cluster meetings will be discussed, and where applicable, incorporated into the final IDP document.” Comments on the draft Budget and IDP can also be submitted in writing to the City Manager through email address: Itumelengmoa@joburg.org.za Copies of the draft Budget and IDP are obtainable from all the City of Johannesburg’s regional offices, he added.
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Joburg CBD shop owners barricade their shops soon after receiving the threatening text message.
Shops close amid xenophobic threat Johannesburg - On Wednesday immigrants in the Joburg CBD shut their shops as a wave of xenophobic violence that has killed four people near Durban threatened to spread, police said. There were no reports of looting or violence in Johannesburg, the epicentre of the 2008 xenophobic attacks that killed more than 60 people. “Foreigners have been observed closing their shops. We don’t know why but police are keeping an eye on the situation,” police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said. A mobile phone text message sent to shop owners warned them to shut their premises, claiming that “Zulu people are coming to kill every foreigner”. One shopkeeper selling shoes, who said he was Pakistani and gave his name as Rashid, kept his shop open. “The guys are scared that is why they are closing,” he said. Outside a row of shuttered shops a man who said he is Ethiopian, gave his name as David and said “We are ready, we will fight.” Police and metro officers were deployed to the Noord Taxi Rank where foreign nationals feared xenophobic attacks will spread to the area. A group of locals attacked foreign nationals and three vehicles were damaged with bricks. A fight broke out, leaving one foreign national with a deep open wound on his arm. A Malawian man said they cannot afford to take any chances as it seems the police are not going to protect them if violence flares up. Eyewitnesses insisted the latest attack is simply a
criminal element and not the result of xenophobic tensions. National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega, has announced that more than 800 officers have now been deployed to various parts of KwaZulu-Natal to quell what the African National Congress has described as “a shameful assault on Africa’s humanity”. Several areas including KwaMashu and Umlazi suburbs have been affected by looting and violence in recent days the unrest spread to the heart of Durban this week. The latest flare up of xenophobia in the province has claimed five lives. Police Commissioner Phiyega says police officers have managed to restore stability to areas where flare ups have occurred. Law enforcement officers have been mobilised from around the country to deal with the unrest but she says day to day crime fighting efforts are not suffering. “We still have the capacity to respond and we will respond accordingly. Our issue is to ensure we save lives and we restore stability,” she adds. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu has called on Durban communities to expose people behind xenophobic attacks and report them to the police. The premier’s spokesperson Sibusiso Magwaza said: “We want to urge people to desist from acts of violence and expose the criminals.” Magwaza added that the government has not yet been informed about the cause of the attacks, which have been largely directed at shops, and an advisory committee has been set up to get to the bottom of it.
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Focus shifts to Ebola epicentre Conakry, Guinea - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that almost half of all Ebola infections in West Africa have been recorded in two districts in the border region between Sierra Leone and Guinea. WHO Sierra Leone spokesperson Winnie Romeril said in Freetown efforts were being made to contain the disease in the two worst affected areas of Kambia, western Sierra Leone and Forecariah, eastern Guinea. “Almost 50 percent of all Ebola cases in West Africa are currently coming from the region between Kambia and Forecariah,” she said. Romeril said the two districts were the most active areas, adding that investigation
was on going in the areas because people were still dying at home. “The shift in focus came after Sierra Leone gave the all-clear for the eastern Kailahun district, a former epicentre of the epidemic, which has been Ebola-free for 112 days,” she said. The spokeswoman said WHO was retraining health workers with a view to addressing the gap in the response system. With no fewer than 11 800 reported infections and over 3 700 deaths Sierra Leone is one of the countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic. The worst Ebola outbreak so far has killed nearly 10 500 people, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Bombing rocks Moroccan embassy Tripoli, Libya - A bomb exploded outside the Moroccan embassy, officials said on Monday, just hours after a gun attack on the building housing South Korea’s mission. The Moroccan embassy is not currently active, and it was unclear if anyone was inside, but officials said there were no casualties. Morocco is currently hosting a UN-backed dialogue between representatives of the two rival governments controlling the country, with talks to resume on an unspecified date. The bombing came hours after gunmen opened fire on South Korea’s embassy compound on Sunday, killing two Libyan
guards. The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility for the South Korean embassy attack. Libya has been plagued by chaos since the end of the 2011 revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, with heavily armed militias battling for control of its cities and oil wealth and rival governments and parliaments vying for power. The country has had two governments and parliaments since Tripoli was seized in August by the Islamist-backed Fajr Libya militia and the internationally recognised government fled to the country’s far east.
Nairobi, Kenya - The government has given the UN three months to remove the Dadaab camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university. Kenya accuses Islamist militants of hiding out in the camp which it now wants the UNHCR to move across the border into Somalia. Deputy President William Ruto said: “We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months, failure to which we shall relocate them ourselves.The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” he said. UNHCR officials were not immediately available for comment. The Dadaab camp hosts over 600 000 Somali refugees, in a remote, dry corner in northeast Kenya. Ruto said Kenya had started building a 700km wall along the entire length of the border with Somalia to keep out members of the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab. “We must secure this country at whatever cost, even if we lose business with Somalia, so be it,” he said. On Tuesday, Kenya closed 13 informal money remittance firms, hawalas, to cut off funding to suspected radicals. Ruto said any business that collaborated with al Shabaab would be shut down. Al Shabaab has killed over 400 people in Kenya in the last two years, including 67 during a siege at Nairobi’s Westgate mall in 2013.
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Former Bafana Bafana striker Benni McCarthy and a youth development player during the launch of the Copa Coca-Cola youth tournament in Joburg.
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he 2015 Copa Coca-Cola tournament was launched on Tuesday in Parktown, Joburg. In a press statement Coca-Cola said the campaign is aimed at encouraging the youth to lead an active, healthy lifestyle through sport. “The campaign will also recognise and reward team work, leadership, friendship, good sportsmanship, enthusiasm, commitment and dedication. The campaign features eight current and former Copa Coca-Cola players from across the globe, who each embody and represent the dynamic and unique roles that make up a successful team.” Among those Copa Coca-Cola global ambassadors is 16-year-old South African born Siyanda Jezile from Centurion. Jezile represents The Artist, a character renowned for its hypnotising flair and technique on the field. South Africa’s U17 coach Molefi Ntseki said structures such as the Copa Coca-Cola tournament are essential to the development of the generation of stars for our national teams. “We have identified the creation of development programmes as a crucial focus for the coming years and each, and every one, has an important role to play in helping us unearth those players with national team potential,” Ntseki added. Two outstanding South African Copa Coca-Cola graduates, Khulekani Khubeka and Luyanda Mdlalose, both aged 16, participated in the tournament last year and were selected to represent South Africa
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