Johannesburg - The months-long celebrations of former South African President Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday will be capped by a concert in Johannesburg next month, his foundation announced Tuesday.

The line-up for the August 23 gig is a mainly South African affair and features mostly local musicians who did not make the shortlist for the Mandela charity concert in London's Hyde Park in June that kickstarted his birthday celebrations.

Wolfsburg, Germany - Volkswagen is to build the right-hand- drive version of its new Golf model at its main German plant in Wolfsburg, shifting production from its plant at Uitenhage on South Africa's southern coast, the company announced Saturday.

VW South Africa head David Powells told the newspaper Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung the RHD version of the Golf VI, aimed at the Asia- Pacific and African markets, would be available in October.

Johannesburg - South Africa's sole nuclear power plant, already producing only partial output, was in a state of complete shutdown Saturday after a further fault was detected.

Both units of the Koeberg nuclear power station in the Cape Peninsula were out of commission, SABC news reported.

Unit one was shut down following a detection of a suspected fault in the cooling system, after unit two had been shut down Monday as a result of a technical fault.

The two units normally produce a total of 1,800 megawatts for South Africa's already extremely strained electricity supply which sees regular blackouts.

Maputo - The government of the southern African country of Mozambique is considering proposals for legislation that would make access to food a basic right, a local newspaper reported.

Mozambique's Noticias newspaper reported this week that the state food and nutrition security technical secretariat (SETSAN) had forwarded a declaration to the cabinet of President Armando Guebuza that calls for such a legal instrument.

The declaration was drawn up at a recent symposium on food security and nutrition in Maputo.

Johannesburg  - South Africa on Friday welcomed the nomination by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of South African judge Navanethem Pillay for the position of UN high commissioner for human rights.

Foreign Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said South Africa congratulated Pillay on being nominated to replace outgoing high commissioner, Canada's Louise Arbour, whose term ended at the end of June.

While Pillay has yet to be discussed by the UN General Assembly at a session on Monday, her accession to the top rights post is seen as a formality following extensive discussions at the UN level.

The role of the high commissioner is to defend human rights worldwide.

Paris  - The first-ever summit meeting between the European Union and South Africa opened Friday in the southern French city of Bordeaux.

South African President Thabo Mbeki will meet with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his role as acting EU president, as well as the EU's foreign affairs chief, Javier Solana.

South Africa is the only African state to date to have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the EU. Friday's summit is the first since the establishment of the Partnership, in May 2007.

The discussions at the summit will focus on South Africa's role in mediating African crisis situations, such as Zimbabwe and Burundi.