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  "id": 2979030,
  "title": "You still can’t choose who sells you electricity in South Africa",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/you-still-cant-choose-who-sells-you-electricity-in-south-africa",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-24T08:32:02.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/you-still-cant-choose-who-sells-you-electricity-in-south-africa/285220/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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