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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 Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber (NMB BC) has entered into a three-year strategic partnership with agricultural group BKB, aimed at strengthening the work of the chamber’s projects desk, which acts as the implementation arm of its Local Economic Reinvention Think Tank. BKB is one of South Africa’s largest and oldest agribusiness companies, operating across a range of agricultural value chains.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[To combat climate change, the world needs green molecules in addition to green electrons. “If we look how the economy is carbonised, an electron can only decarbonise between 60% to 70% of the economy,” SLR Consulting Power Sector Lead Middle East and Africa Stuart Heather-Clark points out.]]></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>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industry body Agri SA has welcomed the National Energy Regulator of South Africa's (Nersa's) publication of the Draft Market Inquiry Report into fixed charges and Eskom's Retail Tariff Plan. The findings of the report confirm the concerns Agri SA has consistently raised regarding the disproportionate impact of recent tariff reforms on agriculture, the industry body says.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[More than 500 member companies of the public-private crime-fighting E2-Plus programme have committed significant resources to support the South African Police Service (SAPS) during the planned anti-foreigner protests expected on June 30, says business organisation Business Against Crime South Africa (Bacsa). The resources include ten helicopters; 20 piloted drones; more than 250 armed response and armoured vehicles; access to 7 000 CCTV cameras with live feeds made available to SAPS; more than 200 radios; 40 ambulances; three specialised medical search-and-rescue teams; two water cannons; two fire trucks; and eight K9 units with handlers for the operational period.]]></description>
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