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Severe storm warning: <\/strong>The South African Weather Service has issued level 2 and 4 warnings across the central and eastern parts of the country. The warnings stretch across the entire eastern half of the country, with severe thunderstorms expected in central areas, including Gauteng. South Africans should expect persistent rain and localised flooding and take the necessary precautions. [ENCA<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Expropriation Act unconstitutional: <\/strong>President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted, under oath, that parts of the Expropriation Act that he signed into law in December 2024 are unconstitutional. He has asked the courts to “read in” amendments to correct them. However, opponents who have challenged the laws in court want the entire Act declared unconstitutional and sent back to Parliament to be processed. [BusinessTech<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n South Africa’s new energy plan:<\/strong> The energy department has announced details of the country’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), which outlines the energy mix South Africa will pursue. The ambitious plan promises 105,000MW of new generation capacity by 2039, reflecting an investment of R2.2 trillion. It envisions a massive reduction in coal energy to 27% of the mix, with wind rising to 24%, solar to 18% and gas to 11%. Nuclear energy is expected to increase to 5%. [News24<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Electricity price changes coming: <\/strong>Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has read Eskom the riot act over its electricity price increases, emphasising that the era of double-digit hikes is over. The minister said that the department has found a “path forward” with pricing, hoping to tie any future increases to inflation. Eskom electricity prices have increased by 937% since 2007, while inflation over the same period was 155%.\u00a0[MyBroadband<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANC in big financial trouble: <\/strong>The ANC is once again under scrutiny for its controversial multi-million-rand debt settlement with Ezulweni Investments, a debt that the ANC is struggling to repay. The case stems from Ezulweni Investments\u2019 application for the ANC to pay R102.5 million, plus interest and costs, for supplying and installing campaign banners during the 2019 election. [Newsday<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are five important things happening in South Africa today, Monday, 20 October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":829872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[1875,1808,1164,12501,16914],"class_list":["post-840343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-anc","tag-electricity","tag-eskom","tag-ramaphosa","tag-saws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840345,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840343\/revisions\/840345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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