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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTop retailer in hot water:<\/strong> The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has warned The Foschini Group (TFG) to consider the impact of its store closures. This followed an announcement by TFG earlier this year that it plans to close down hundreds of stores over the next few years. [Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eskom built hundreds of flats that are standing completely empty:\u00a0<\/strong>Eskom\u2019s Ogies Housing Project cost the utility R910 million, with the 366 flats now standing empty. [Daily Investor<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crackdown\u00a0on Netflix, WhatsApp, MTN, and more:\u00a0<\/strong>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has warned over-the-top (OTT) service providers, including the multinational Netflix and WhatsApp, as well as the country’s major telecommunications companies MTN and Vodacom, about the pricing of their services. [Business Day<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most expensive power station in history still incomplete:<\/strong>\u00a0After 19 years, Eskom\u2019s two largest coal-fired power stations, Kusile and Medupi, remain technically incomplete, lacking critical systems and requiring significant remedial work. Originally designed to solve the country\u2019s load-shedding crisis, construction of both plants was plagued by delays, with an estimated combined cost of over R410 billion borne by South African taxpayers. [MyBroadband<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transnet corruption exposed:<\/strong>\u00a0Transnet Port Terminals employees have accused executives of procurement irregularities involving over R900 million, leading to substantial losses. The allegations were submitted to the Hawks and supported by documents. [Mail & Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Monday, 7 September 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":862845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2096833607495037094","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2198247304329002","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18124001014873491","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20398],"tags":[18993,853],"class_list":["post-874037","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\/874037","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=874037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874048,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874037\/revisions\/874048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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