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• Outgoing Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter is not leaving us wit any good news. He has conceded that 2023 will be a challenging year but is optimistic that rolling black outs will be significantly reduced in 2024. De Ruyter was taking part in a discussion yesterday at the ongoing mining indaba in cape town. He says there is new generation capacity that’s in the pipeline. He says from next year there should be a reduction in incidents of blackouts.

• There’s some news out of the Turkey earthquake., the footballer from Ghana, Christian Atsu has been found. Another footballer, 28-year-old Ahmet Eyup has sadly lost his life. A mom died after giving birth under the rubble and the baby survived and on the South Africa front, 4 people survived and that’s because they are in prison.
7 Feb 2023 11PM English South Africa Entertainment News

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