Proposed new port in Durban is to be created by excavating an old airport into a basin, but economic downturn causes sponsor to shelve it for now. Meanwhile, plans for existing port expansion stay on track.
Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction has filed suit to challenge a directive by Namibia’s President Hage Geingob halting a $477-million airport upgrade the company was awarded in early December.
Although a World Bank inspection panel has criticized on environmental and other grounds a mammoth coal-fired powerplant under construction in South Africa, the project will proceed and the bank
