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Top news items of S. African major news outlets

Xinhua, July 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights of South African major media outlets on Friday.

-- Electricity utility ESKOM's decision that it will not sign further power purchase agreements with independent power producers has alarmed the market and will have "a chilling effect" on private sector investment in the energy sector and more broadly, say renewable energy generators and manufacturers.

The decision, which was confirmed again by Eskom head of generation Matshela Koko on Thursday, sent shock waves through the industry and has thrown uncertainty over several bidding processes that are in midstream. The program has to date been hailed a global success story and has attracted R193bn in private investment in five years.(Business Day)

-- The African National Congress (ANC) is coming for you. This was the stern warning the party's deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday gave to those assassinating ANC candidates in KwaZulu-Natal.

"To those who are killing our candidates and hell-bent on being executioners of our candidates. I want to send a warning that if you think that you are going to finish the ANC by executing our candidates, we are going to get you." (News24)

-- South Africa should introduce gender budgeting to ensure that money spent by government departments improves the lives of women, according to African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

Dlamini-Zuma was speaking at a dialogue in Braamfontein on Thursday night, which was hosted by the Young Women's Desk of the Johannesburg ANC Women's League.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit