Eskom has made it this far, despite the past 20 years during which ageing power plants, indecisive policy solutions and corruption both internally and externally have crippled the state-owned entity
In all our rightful hysteria about Eskom and creaking infrastructure, we live in an economy that’s been drifting for a generation
This week’s Friday section in the Mail & Guardian marks their lives that, oddly enough, ended in this very month of January
We salute our heroes, the people who quietly do what the government does not, who show us that we are not helpless
The question for Ramaphosa, who would be 75 by the year 2027, is, just what are you going to do to salvage your legacy as the ANC’s 14th president and the country’s fifth since the dawn of democracy
The ANC will leave a legacy muddied by political careerism, personality cults and corruption
Media houses will have to pay up to cover the governing party’s conference
Much like Gavrilo Princip, who lit the flames to World War I in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Walus’s actions were seminal
Andre De Ruyter will begin his third year as the power utility’s chief executive in January
The South African Reserve Bank will yet again in all likelihood raise interest rates to fend off the rising tide of inflation — it’s the only tool they have.