Cameroon and South Africa to reinforce
cooperation
The South African High Commissioner to
Cameroon, ZaneleMakina, announced the move last weekend
By Nche Jude Mbah in Yaounde
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| ZaneleMakina and Minister Atangana posed for the press |
South African High Commissioner to Yaounde
has said that her country is ready to invest in Cameroon’s energy sector.
ZaneleMakina made the revelation after an audience with Cameroon’s Minister of
Water Resources and Energy, BasileAtanganaKouna, on Friday 28 April 2017.
According
to the High Commissioner, South Africa will be partnering with a major Indian
company to boost electricity production and transportation through grids in the
country.
The
investment which will extend to electricity regulation and capacity building is
aimed to strengthen the existing economic ties between South Africa and
Cameroon.
While
noting that the energy sector is well established in her country with
electricity having reached almost all rural communities, Zalene said South
Africa is a front driver in renewable energy in the continent and will transfer
such experience to Cameroon.
At
the end of Friday’s audience, Minister AtanganaKouna said he was very satisfied
because funds for the project were already available.
“We
engaged a reform in the electricity sector since 2011 on the instructions of
the Head of State. From time to time, foreign investors want to come and work
with Cameroon and it is in this light that I have been receiving many
delegations,” the Minister disclosed.
He
told newsmen the Director of Electricity at the Ministry of Water Resources and
Energy has already started working with the South African investors to identify
and elaborate particular segments that will be considered for the investment.
It
should be recalled South Africa is well advanced in petroleum, natural gas,
electricity, coal, nuclear, renewable and alternative fuels as sources of
energy.
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