EFF leader Julius Malema has called for South Africans to join the party during its national shutdown aimed at unseating President Cyril Ramaphosa
Government departments will be compelled to introduce power saving measures and to move to alternative energy sources
The president has asked Eastern Cape ANC chair Oscar Mabuyane to add Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to the province’s parliamentary list
The maligned former Eskom CEO challenged the notion that it was foolish to shut ageing power stations and focus on procuring more renewable capacity
The meeting will take place on Monday night on the energy state of disaster as as anticipation builds over a cabinet reshuffle
In these difficult times, a summit aims to help with the urgent need for our leaders to act responsibly to instil caring, compassionate and conscious values
Our uncle in the load-shedding business sits on his couch and faces zero accountability
As a country, our struggling economy is hitched to both the prospects of the East and the West. Being frozen out by any of them, would be punishing for all
Sources on the board of Eskom believe that chief financial officer Calib Cassim will take over as the next CEO
The biggest highlight of the budget was the support to aid individuals and businesses to source alternative energy sources
Various financing companies are offering consumers the option to pay a monthly fee for solar energy and they will own the equipment after a certain period of time
The social development department has been allocated R35.7 billion to fund the extended social relief of distress grant
The majority of the relief comes in the form of incentives given to businesses and households investing in alternative energy
Power utility says the high court challenge to the increase is flawed in law, and could mean more load-shedding, or worse, a credit default
The ally of former president Thabo Mbeki could wield the axe over president Cyril Ramaphosa, who is yet to hear what the commission recommended about the Phala Phala scandal
Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past
The utility’s R400 billion debt has fed into the country’s 15-year energy crisis and low growth potential, which has been identified as a key credit weakness
An internal report implicates Maimane as the mastermind in a plan to rid the party of its white leaders, thereby alienating white voters
An energy expert calls on the government to support small businesses and households move to renewable energy
In closing the debate on his State of the Nation address, the president said the country was not abandoning coal as a major power source
But widespread, destructive flooding does qualify as a disaster
Cape Town mayor says his party must do all it can to thwart ANC-EFF coalition efforts as the latter will destroy South Africa if in power
Cabinet sources argue the state of disaster will take away the powers of more ministers than just that of the forestry and fisheries minister
DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink
The government has shown that it is willing to explore introducing a basic income grant, which would mark a big step towards achieving growth
The question over dismissing the Ngcobo report was whether MPs had a primary duty to hold the president to account or be accountable to voters
The opposition, insatiably desperate for attention, are as much to blame for our faulty system as those who drive it
Beyond electricity, South Africa cannot continue to design its energy system based on ad-hoc responses, says conservation organisation WWF
No legal provision for calling a state of disaster because your cabinet is incompetent and your government incapable, panel hears
The presidency has described the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge the declaration of a national state of disaster over Eskom as “confusing” given that the party had been asking the president to do so since last year. DA leader John Steenhuisen confirmed on Friday that the party had already briefed its legal […]
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