According to the Mopheme-Survivor newspaper, Dr. Khaketla made the announcement at a recent joint meeting of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Lesotho Tunneling Society.

"We are expecting to get proposals for the study by the end of February and for the actual work to start at the end of April, Dr Khaketla is reported as having said. The study is expected to take two years.

Phase Two entails construction of the Mashai dam, which is expected to be the largest in the entire Project and would supply water to the Katse dam through a 30 kilometre tunnel.

18 February 2005