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Ramaphosa goes head to head with Scheherazade

JAUNDICED EYE WITH its customary cack-handed timing, Eskom on Thursday – after days and nights of burdensome load shedding – suspended the pain. Whoop dee doo!

It’s the second year that Eskom has avoided blackouts on this particular day. News24 reports that the government paid Eskom R7million-R10m an hour to suspend cuts on this “special day”.

This meant that for the second year in a row

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