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READ | Ramaphosa's full speech on plans to fix SA's energy crisis (News24)

President Cyril Ramaphosa. GCIS. From scrapping the 100MW licencing threshold to importing power and bringing in law enforcement to tackle sabotage and theft - ...

If we work together, if we hold each other to account, if we meet our deadlines and fulfil our commitments, we will end the energy crisis and create the conditions for growth and job creation. I was impressed with the diversity of this group of men and women and their commitment to getting in the right skills and ensuring adherence to a maintenance philosophy. We must join in a massive rollout of rooftop solar and contribute to the solution. In the process, we will position our country as a leading player in the transition to new and sustainable energy sources, turning this crisis into an opportunity for future growth and resilience. We aim to do this by stabilising Eskom and improving plant performance, establishing a competitive electricity market, opening the way for private investment in new generation capacity and increasing our investment in renewables. One of our greatest challenges in adding capacity to the grid is the time that it takes for any energy project to receive the necessary approvals and commence construction. These steps will allow us to limit load shedding to lower stages and reduce the risk of such severe load shedding in future. This morning, I also met political party leaders. We will use climate funding provided through the Just Energy Transition Partnership to invest in the grid and repurpose power stations that have reached the end of their lives. Eskom has to implement load shedding to prevent the electricity grid from collapsing, and to ensure that we never experience a complete blackout. This is a call for all South Africans to be part of the solution; to contribute in whatever way they can to ending energy scarcity in South Africa. We have therefore developed a set of actions to respond to the crisis.

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Here it is: Ramaphosa's 'energy action plan' to end SA's rolling ... (Daily Maverick)

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night announced what he called an 'energy action plan' to tackle South Africa's power crisis. This is what the plan ...

The tracker will particularly hold the President accountable on the commitments made to add new generation capacity.” Put differently, Eskom needs to double the capacity provided by its entire fleet — which at present is about 46,000MW — if it is to ensure and sustain energy security. “The President has announced interventions that will address these persistent, but obvious, failures that South Africans have endured for far longer than we ever needed to. South Africans have endured electricity blackouts, euphemistically called load shedding, for 15 years. - Ensuring that all projects from Bid Window 5 of the renewable energy programme can start construction on schedule. - Removing the licensing threshold for embedded generation completely and tabling “special legislation in Parliament on an expedited basis” to address the legal and regulatory obstacles to new generation capacity for a limited period;

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What we learned from Trump's return to Washington (BBC News)

In an address before Republican members of Congress and former administration officials at the America First Policy Institute summit, the former president set ...

"But that's not what I do," he said. "We may just have to do it again," Mr Trump said of running for president. "I don't know that our movement is that divided," he said. "I won a second time, did much better the second time," he said of his 2020 re-election effort. He defended his supporters who marched to the Capitol before its attack, saying many were being unfairly prosecuted and "tortured and handled so horribly". "Sir, don't say that, it's very controversial," he said his advisers had told him about that line.

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President Ramaphosa expected to address the nation at 8pm on ... (SABC News)

President Ramaphosa is expected to announce measures to address measures to combat the energy crisis afflicting South Africa. LIVE Proceedings below: ...

To end load shedding in the medium term, and to ensure that we have energy security,” he said. Ramaphosa says the ANC-led government is working around the clock to address the problem of power cuts in South Africa. He says he understands the frustration that the continued blackouts have caused within the business sector. President Ramaphosa is expected to announce measures to address measures to combat the energy crisis afflicting South Africa.

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Ramaphosa to address the nation on energy crisis on Monday night (Eyewitness News)

The Presidency said the president held consultative meetings with business, civil society, labour and leaders of political parties represented in ...

PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS THE NATION ON ENERGY CRISISPresidency The Presidency said the president held consultative meetings with business, civil society, labour and leaders of political parties represented in Parliament. Ramaphosa to address the nation on energy crisis on Monday night

South Africa: President to Address the Nation On Energy Crisis (AllAfrica.com)

Press Release - President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 20h00 this evening, 25 July 2022, on South Africa's energy crisis.

On 16 July 2022, President Ramaphosa visited Tutuka Power Station in Mpumalanga and Eskom Megawatt Park Headquarters in Johannesburg, and held engagements with Power Station managers to gain an understanding of the challenges affecting Eskom's generation fleet. The briefing by the President follows a number of consultations within government and with stakeholders and energy experts outside of government to find a collective solution to the energy crisis. The President has held consultative meetings with business, civil society, labour and leaders of political parties represented in Parliament.

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Trump repeats false election fraud claims during speech in ... (PBS NewsHour)

In dueling speeches, former President Donald Trump is repeating the false election claims that sparked the Jan. 6 insurrection while his vice president, ...

“It was a catastrophe that election,” Trump declared about a mile from the White House he once called home. Trump has spent much of his time since leaving office spreading lies about his loss to sow doubt about Biden’s victory. Among his proposals, he called for executing drug dealers, sending the homeless to tent cities on the outskirts of towns and expanding his Southwest border wall. Polls show that Trump remains, by far, the top choice of GOP primary voters, with Pence far behind. “Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future,” Pence said in an address to Young America’s Foundation, a student conservative group. In a dueling speech not far away, his former vice president, Mike Pence, implored the Republican Party to move on from Trump’s defeat.

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Trump hints at 2024 presidential bid in Washington address (The Indian Express)

The former US President made his first visit to the capital since Joe Biden entered the White House last year. Meanwhile, Mike Pence has stuck a very ...

I can’t do that.” “But that’s not what I will do. “We may just have to do it again.

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No more excuses: Ramaphosa announces massive changes for ... (BusinessTech)

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the government will introduce new regulations to allow new generation energy projects to come online faster, ...

To achieve this, he said that new energy projects need to be brought online. The president said that these steps would allow the country to limit load shedding to lower stages and reduce the risk of such severe blackouts in the future. Addressing the nation on Monday evening (25 July), the president said that South Africa needs to implement a two-pronged strategy to deal with the current energy crisis: find the capacity to meet the current shortfall and limit load shedding immediately, and urgently source new capacity for the long-term, to end load shedding permanently.

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'They want to damage me': Donald Trump takes aim at critics, Biden ... (USA TODAY)

Making his first return to Washington, D.C., since leaving office, the former president spoke to a conservative conference on an agenda that includes more ...

In a tweet that day, Pence said: "If the Republican Party allows itself to become consumed by yesterday’s grievances, we will lose." Some Republicans have described the AFPI as a Trump government in waiting. "I'm supremely confident Donald Trump can make it happen again." "I truly do believe that elections are about the future." Hours before Trump's speech, Pence outlined his own agenda in a speech before the Young America's Foundation, a conservative outreach organization. Outlining an aggressive agenda, Trump said he wants to make it easier to send the National Guard into states and cities to fight crime. They read "Indict Trump," as did a banner that demonstrators unfurled from a floor above. Delegates to the America First Policy Institute ate it up. On another law enforcement note, Trump again criticized all the investigations into his own conduct. Trump's appearance at a downtown hotel near the Washington convention center also drew protesters. Hogan Gidley, a former spokesman for the Trump White House, said the America First Policy Institute is dedicated topromoting "policy prescriptions" that can help the country and defeat Biden and the Democrats down the line. WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump returned to the nation's capital Tuesday and gave a policy speech to an organization developing an agenda for what he called "the next Republican president" – someone that many audience members clearly want to be Trump himself.

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