Danny Jordaan, CEO, South African World Cup Organizing Committee
“If there is a security breach in Finland, you are not going to ask England to explain,” he said, adding that the distance between South Africa and Angola is equivalent to the distance between Finland and the U.K.
The head of the organizing committee for the soccer World Cup in South Africa dismissed concerns over the safety of the event after the Togolese national team was attacked by rebels in Angola en route to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Read the rest of this entry »
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will invite more countries into Western Power Corridor Co. (Westcor), the regional partnership that plans to build the $5 billion Inga 3 hydropower plant on the Congo river, Africa’s biggest river. 
Namibian mobile operator Cell One will be rebranded as ‘Leo’ in a process to begin next month.
Despite the considerable potential that exists to produce electricity using renewable energy (RE) in Southern Africa, RE projects have been largely limited to off-grid, small-scale applications. However, the renewable energy market in South Africa is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years, owing to the announcement of the renewable energy feed-in tariff made in March 2009.
