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A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship. [1] It is often distinct from an income or a salary because it does not necessarily represent payment for work performed; instead it represents a payment that enables somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in order to ...
In 2019 Eskom controversially applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to increase tariffs by an additional 45% over the proceeding three years [190] arguing that it needs the increase in revenue to avoid a debt induced death spiral. [191] Eskom was controversially granted a 13.8% increase by NERSA in March 2019. [192]
Eskom was founded by the Electricity Act of 1922 which allowed for the establishment of a government owned non-profit company to provide electricity. In 1948 Eskom bought out the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company with government support for £14.5 million (roughly equivalent to £2.55 billion in 2017) to become South Africa's primary ...
The state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs.
The Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs (KL-YES) are fully-funded student exchange programs administered by the U.S. Department of State. [1] YES includes the "inbound" program for students from close to 40 Muslim majority countries to study and live in the U.S., and the "outbound" program, called YES Abroad, for students from the U.S. to study in [2] selected YES countries.
The Youth Employment Services (YES) was established in the late 1960s in Toronto. The founding of the organization is associated with employment in Canada. [2] In 1998, YES opened Canada's first Youth Business Centre to provide young entrepreneurs with individual business skills training and help them secure start-up loans. [3]
On 9 August 2021, in the second week after Eskom announced that Medupi had attained commercial operation, Medupi Unit 4 was extensively damaged in a hydrogen explosion [34] [35] which caused a loss of 700 MW in generating capacity. [36] The cost of repair was estimated at up to R2 billion, [36] or up to R40 billion. [37] [38]
The station consists of six 665 MW units with a total installed capacity of 3,990 MW. The turbine's Maximum Continuous Rating is 35.60%. The power station was commissioned between 1988 and 1993.