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New electricity SOE coming to South Africa:<\/strong> The Minister of Electricity has approved Eskom\u2019s new unbundling plan, which recommends the creation of a new state-owned enterprise separate from Eskom. Eskom has drafted an unbundling strategy that would end its monopoly on electricity in South Africa by breaking the company down into smaller, independent divisions. [Newsday<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woman who stopped total grid collapse\u00a0is leaving Eskom:<\/strong>\u00a0Eskom veteran Isabel Fick, a key figure in the power utility\u2019s enormous efforts to avert a total grid collapse amid severe generation challenges, is resigning to join a private power company. She will join Africa GreenCo as its group head of trading and operations in 2026, after completing her duties at the NTCSA. [MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good news for South Africa:<\/strong>\u00a0A US House committee approved a bill to renew Washington’s preferential trade program for Africa for another three years, with no immediate mention of excluding South Africa, as previously suggested by the US trade envoy.\u00a0[News24<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trouble for R7.2 billion Curro buyout:<\/strong>\u00a0The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) is investigating a complaint of potential insider trading in Curro shares ahead of the Jannie Mouton Foundation’s R7.2 billion acquisition offer. The regulator confirmed that suspicious trades were reported to them prior to the announcement, and the complaint is currently under assessment. [Moneyweb<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n New international flight for South Africa<\/strong>: South African Airways (SAA) has launched a new direct service between South Africa and Mauritius. The airline held its inaugural flight this week on Tuesday, 9 December 2025, marking an important milestone for its continued growth and financial recovery. [TopAuto<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 5 important things happening in South Africa today, Friday, 12 December 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":822947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-846236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things","tag-5-important-things-happening-in-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846236","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846242,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846236\/revisions\/846242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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