内容摘要：Russian gas is still piped to Europe in increasing quantities via Turkey: CREA's data shows that its volume rose by 26.77% in January and February 2025 over the same period in 2024.

Russian gas is still piped to Europe in increasing quantities via Turkey: CREA's data shows that its volume rose by 26.77% in January and February 2025 over the same period in 2024.

He gave as an example the problems being faced by the state-owned power utility Eskom.It plans to roll out a transmission network over about 4,500km (28,000 miles) of land to boost electricity supplies to end the power crisis in the country.

Ahead of the roll-out, some individuals colluded with Eskom officials to buy land for 1m rand ($56,000; £41,000), and then demanded R20m for it, he said."Is it just and equitable to give them what they want? I don't think that's in the interest of the broader community or the state," Macpherson said.Giving another example, Macpherson said that some of South Africa's inner cities were in a "disastrous" condition. After owners left, buildings were "over-run" and "hijacked" for illegal occupation. The cost to the state to rebuild them could exceed their value, and in such cases the courts could rule that an owner qualified for "nil compensation", he said.

"Nil is a form of compensation," Macpherson added, while ruling it out for farms.Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero told South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper

He added the owners of nearly 100 buildings could not be located.

"They have abandoned the buildings," he said, adding some of the owners were from the UK and Germany.It is now the defence's turn to call witnesses, and first up was Ms Patterson herself.

The 50-year-old told the court that by 2023 she had felt for some months that her relationship with the wider Patterson family - Don and Gail in particular - had perhaps developed a bit more distance or space."We saw each other less," she says.

"I'd come to have concerns that Simon was not wanting me to be involved too much with the family anymore."After detailing a brief period of separation between the couple when their first child was an infant, Erin Patterson told the court that she and Simon Patterson struggled to work out their disagreements.