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            <description><![CDATA[The Gautrain experienced a technical fault on the North-South line at about 17:00 on June 25, leading to a train being evacuated as a precautionary safety measure and resulting in delays to passenger journeys. Full train services resumed according to schedule at about 19:20 on the same day.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has called for public comment on revised draft rules for electricity trading as part of a second round of consultations after Eskom raised objections to an initial draft published in November 2025. In a statement, Nersa said the updated draft rules had been significantly expanded and revised to incorporate stakeholder comments that were made during the initial consultation process.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has published the draft market inquiry report on the impact of fixed charges levied by electricity distributors and State-owned entity Eskom’s unbundled generation capacity charge, legacy charge and variable energy charge for stakeholder input and comment. The draft findings indicate that, although the movement towards more cost-reflective tariffs has an important regulatory rationale, the impacts of tariff restructuring differ across customer categories depending on consumption patterns, load factors, operational requirements and the ability to respond to tariff signals, Nersa says in a statement.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture has announced that the Boshoek and Wonderkop ferrochrome smelters will be restarted, following the conclusion of the detailed terms and conditions of negotiated pricing agreements (NPAs) with Eskom. The NPAs, Glencore Marafe said, gave full effect to the 62c/kWh tariff, which had been approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for both the venture and for Samacor Chrome.]]></description>
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            <title>Johannesburg collapse risk spurs call for State to run city</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s government may soon need to make the politically fraught decision to take control of Johannesburg to avert the city’s financial collapse, according to a consultant appointed by two of the country’s leading business groups. While such a move would be difficult for the ANC before crucial local elections in November, it may have little choice but to act, Lael Bethlehem, a partner at Genesis Analytics, said during the presentation of a study commissioned by Business Leadership South Africa and Business For South Africa. “The City of Johannesburg is essentially bankrupt,” Bethlehem said Thursday. “We may have a situation where they may not be able to limp on until November and the government will have to implement” a takeover plan, she said.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa ramps up infrastructure investment and increases private sector participation, projects are becoming more complex, multi-stakeholder dependent and time sensitive, says multidisciplinary engineering and construction partnership, Khewija GIBB Alliance (KGA) MD Carl Pretorius. Moreover, project outcomes are too often undermined by fragmented processes, misaligned incentives and persistent delays.]]></description>
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