Like unfinished flyovers in Cape Town, global climate finance and domestic demand often don’t meet up
Eskom price hike is ‘unsustainable’
‘Cost-reflective tariffs’ and resolving municipal debt are needed to turn Eskom around
The chief executive believes climate change is an opportunity for the utility to pivot from coal
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The Prince of Darkness is load-shredding us and, with ANC elections ahead, in KZN the guns are coming out
The power utility will keep the peace with organised labour, André de Ruyter has assured
Mkhuleko Hlengwa has pointed to people in Eskom or the public enterprises department for making the document public
There’s a darkness on the streets – and it is not caused by Eskom – as the cops unleash
a new wave of unnecessary violence
On Tuesday energy regulator Nersa announced that it would allow the ailing power utility to recover an additional R10-billion through tariffs.
During a podcast discussion, the ailing power utility’s chief executive said there would be efforts to avoid further hurting distressed businesses
What to do, what to do… If only there was a way for Mantashe and De Ruyter to reliably produce power while protecting the environment.
Eskom is appealing an interdict by the courts to stop it from interrupting power to municipalities that owe it billions of rands
Early signs of instability are creeping into struggling power utility as forces fighting for space in the parastatal take battle to the very top at Megawatt Park
Independent investigation into Eskom reveals fractious board discussions, involving accusations and counter-accusations, as allegations of corruption sink contract
Finance minister warns “we cannot have all things we want at the same time” and tables cuts in things like the public wage bill in a R1.84 trillion budget
South Africa has a slew of service-delivery problems, most notably in the water and electricity sectors. The time for promises is over: what the country needs is action
The treasury’s rejection of South32’s proposal to increase the value of its Eskom contract by R1.2-billion could spark a coal shortage for the parastatal
Regular maintenance, zero corruption and no emergency coal procurement are the main issues
The former head of stressed Nampak has been brought in to set right the floundering utility