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Eskom escalates to stage 6 power cuts, blames ongoing strike

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  • (FILES) This file photograph taken on 8 July 2013, shows hot chocolate before being moulded at the Barry Callebaut chocolate factory in Wieze, eastern Flanders. Swiss group Barry Callebaut, the world's largest cocoa and chocolate company, said on 30 June 2022, that it had halted chocolate production at its Wieze (Belgium) factory, billed as the world's largest, after salmonella was found in a batch on 26 June. Picture: GEORGES GOBET/AFP

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  • Youth from Scenery Park and neighboring communities in East London march for their 21 peers who died at Enyobeni Tavern and held a candle lighting ceremony on 29 June 2022. Picture: Nhlanhla Mabaso/EWN

    Scenery Park community picking up the pieces after tavern tragedy

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Coronavirus

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    R103m PPE tender awarded to Khusela Diko's relative declared unlawful

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  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 022 Heads of Mission Conference in Tshwane on 7 April 2022. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

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Politics

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    Electoral Amendment Bill: ConCourt explains extension granted to Parly

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  • Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan arrives at the Brooklyn Police Station in Pretoria on 26 November 2018 to lay criminal complaints against EFF leader Julius Malema. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

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Business

  • FILE: A clothing store in Claremont, Cape Town, in darkness as load shedding kicks in. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    'It's not fair': South Africans feeling the negative impact of power cuts

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    Busa urges govt to ‘show decisive leadership’ in fixing years-long energy crisis

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Africa

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  • FILE: In this file photo, a member of the Amhara Special Forces watches on at the border crossing with Eritrea where an Imperial Ethiopian flag waves, in Humera, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020.  Picture: AFP

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  • The Southern African bloc endorsed Zimbabwe’s Fortune Charumbira for the position of Pan African President on 29 June 2022. Picture: Screenshot

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World

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Lifestyle

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