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[BREAKING] Acting minister Firoz Chachalia wants #NhlanhlaMkhwanazi to head up the HAWKS.
#eNCA
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Trump: I'm the only president to pass. I passed 3 cognitive tests. And they're hard. They have a lion, a bear, a snake, and a camel. They say, which one is the snake? It's a very powerful test, very highly respected test, very well known test, 30 questions, very hard. I passed it all 3 times. I aced it
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South Africa’s first gas-to-power bid window closed without a single megawatt awarded - by Chris Yelland, EE Business Intelligence - via @mybroadband mybroadband.co.za/news/energ…
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After all these years, this is a failure of epic proportions.
GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES GASIPPPP BID WINDOW 1 OUTCOME, REAFFIRMS MARKET COMMITMENT AND OUTLINES THE PATH FORWARD
28 October 2026 | Pretoria, South Africa - The Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, through the Department of Electricity and Energy (DEE) and the Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office, today announced the conclusion of Bid Window 1 (BW1) of the Gas Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (GASIPPPP).
Gas-to-power is critical for South Africa’s electricity supply system adequacy and flexibility. GASIPPPP BW1 sought to procure 2,000 MW of generation capacity in line with the IRP2019
and IRP2025. Following an extensive stakeholder consultation the Department issued a revised GASIPPPP BW1 Request for Proposals on 20 October 2025. On 29 May 2026 the Department received four (4) bids offering a total of 2,830MW.
The RFP required bidders to provide assurances of gas supply for their bids. Even though South Africa is potentially well endowed with natural gas, it imports most of its gas supply requirements from Mozambique and the country has no LNG receiving terminal. The bidders
were unable to provide gas supply assurances to the level required in the RFP. This is one of the main reasons that none of the bidders satisfied the mandatory functional criteria.
Read the full statement on the link below:
dee.gov.za/government-announ…
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Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss bbc.in/47L44N4
The price of a Cape Town apartment
A seven-bedroom mansion formerly linked to the Gupta family has been listed for sale in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, with offers starting at R7 million.
dailyinvestor.com/property/1…
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DEVELOPMENT:
Suliman Carrim is supposed to have his judgement on bail this morning but the state wants to make an application to reopen it’s case to present new information.
The prosecutor says investigators recently discovered this evidence and they argue it’s prudent to the decision the court needs to make.
Carrim’s lawyers are opposing this application.
#SulimanCarrim
#MadlangaCommission
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Rassie Erasmus named six uncapped players in a 37-man squad for the second leg of the Nations Championship in November, with Yaqeen Ahmed, Sebastian de Klerk, Luan Giliomee, Markus Muller, Riley Norton, and Emmanuel Tshituka all earning their first national call-ups for the Boks.
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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro left the country for the US after losing the presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said reut.rs/3WaU8K5
Jonny Steinberg | Will the DA triangulate itself to death? news24.com/opinions/columnis… via @news24
