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1 week ago | 
businessreport.co.za | Siphelele Dludla |Jairus Mmutle
ECONOMYBudget 2025The ratings agency on Tuesday said South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) for 2025 will only grow by 1.5%, a 0.2 percentage points decrease from its previous forecast. Image: Jairus Mmutle/GCISMoody’s Ratings agency has lowered South Africa’s growth forecast for 2025 on the back of expected slow global growth, driven by tariff uncertainty and trade tensions.
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2 months ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Jairus Mmutle
Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa Minister of electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the current load shedding is momentary and should not be regarded as permanent. Ramokgopa has assured South Africans that the country should be out of the "difficult” position by the end of the week. Ramokgopa was addressing a media briefing on Sunday, hours after the power utility Eskom announced the return of load shedding after multiple power-generating units tripped.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Koena Mashale |Jairus Mmutle
The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign was launched in Rustenburg, North West on Monday. More than 2,500 women and children were killed in the country between April and September this year. This means on average, 14 women and children were murdered each day during those six months.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Herman Moloi |Jairus Mmutle
Cogta minister Velinkosini Hlabisa. The classification of foodborne illnesses as a national state of disaster means various departments and municipalities have the power to compile their own assessment of the severity of the crisis. The department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) said if the cases are found to be severe or increasing, they will then declare foodborne illnesses as a national disaster.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
dispatchlive.co.za | Modiegi Mashamaite |Jairus Mmutle
Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. File photo. Minister of electricity and energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says he is planning to permanently eradicate load-shedding. “Today Eskom marks more than six months without scheduled load-shedding. We must reach a point where we forget the counting as a result of having permanently resolved the problem,” he said on X. Ramokgopa was delivering a compelling keynote address on Tuesday at Standard Bank’s fourth Climate Summit.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Kgothatso Madisa |Jairus Mmutle
Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has put his head on the block vowing he will make sure South Africans are protected from the high cost of electricity. He said he was confident the government would come up with interventions that would shield consumers from the looming electricity tariff increase and Eskom’s revenue recovery plan.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Lizeka Tandwa |Jairus Mmutle
President Cyril Ramaphosa called for affordable electricity as the country moves towards a just energy transition. President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for municipal officials to take a leaf from his “streetwise” ministers amid the country's energy transition and deliver top quality services. Ramaphosa was the keynote speaker at the Municipal Just Energy Transition Conference in Johannesburg on Monday. He took a hard line against municipalities, warning that mediocrity was no longer an option.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Jairus Mmutle
“The money invested in the plan will be recouped by the UIF through contributions and revenue generated from investments as has been the sustainability model of the fund.” Nxesi said strides had been made by the government through interventions, including initiatives and programmes by government departments undertaken with partners in the private sector through labour activation programmes.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Jairus Mmutle
Significant progress has been made in the past six months in implementing the government’s plan to end load-shedding, the Presidency said on Wednesday. The Presidency released a report on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan (EAP), which is co-ordinated by the National Energy Crisis Committee under the leadership of electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the EAP in July 2022.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
businesslive.co.za | Jairus Mmutle
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says there were 11 days of no load-shedding in October. The week of October 27 to November 3 saw Eskom lose 17,300MW due to outages, which undermined the gains recorded by the power utility in the previous weeks, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Sunday.
