Last week, the country was plunged into stage six load-shedding when Eskom workers went on strike. A wage settlement was reached on Tuesday, but Eskom warned that it will take time to recover
The power utility warned that the system would take some time to recover because maintenance work had been postponed because of the unprotected strike
Sources at a meeting of the national executive committee said a call was made to shift the power utility to Gwede Mantashe’s ministry of minerals and resources
After more than 10 years of meddling and the countless executive game of musical chairs, please leave political actors out of Eskom problem-solving. This is a problem to be solved by Andre de Ruyter and the unions and the ‘rogue’ employees working outside the established channels
Number 1 should take some tips from Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta and finally clear the cabinet of some deadwood
The utility’s employees went on an unprotected strike but years of poor decisions wrecked the energy producer
During a webinar on Wednesday, the group chief executive of EOH, Stephen van Coller, called private sector participation in the Zondo commission into state capture ‘disappointing’
This is according to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who placed the blame for stage six load-shedding on unprotected strike action
The power utility says it experienced unplanned losses of 14 204 megawatts as wage-related protest action intensified
The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities
The province at the polluting heart of energy production has good wind and solar resources and can use the grid as coal-fired power stations are decommissioned
The demonstrations have coincided with stage 2 rotational power cuts which the state-owned utility says will remain in place until Sunday due to the breakdown of four generation units
Load-shedding and electricity prices are projected to double in next five years
The power utility is owed huge amounts of money by municipalities — and then there’s sabotage to contend with
The utility buys R11-bn of electricity from Eskom which it needs to sell to make revenue and reinvest but instead it loses R2-bn a year due to illegal connections
The province may be in for a heavy stench as the winds blow in from Mpumalanga. The M&G looks back at the events that contributed to this state of affairs
Fugitives Rajesh and Atul Gupta were arrested four months after Interpol issued a Red Notice against them. But they are just the latest.
Small modular nuclear reactors can help South Africa transition to a low-carbon economy
The Mail & Guardian spent time with the residents of Thuthukani, and heard of how a once ‘beautiful’ town had degenerated.
Lekwa local municipality, which is home to Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tutuka power station, faces rolling blackouts and crumbling infrastructure after governance fell to pieces
Ron Derby, Sarah Smit and Khaya Koko in conversation about Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tukuka power station and why Lekwa local municipality faces rolling blackouts and crumbling infrastructure
Former Eskom chief executive says Zondo Commission was ‘very sympathetic’ towards Glencore’s relationship with Ramaphosa
Contemporary African intellectuals, historians, self-styled Pan-Africanists, patriots and good old liberal political commentators such as myself carry divergent opinions of why South Africa shuns — or does not commemorate — Africa Day. I have, ever since my country shrugged off Rhodesian colonialism in 1980, bought the story hook, line and sinker that May is truly […]
A forensic report details how Tutuka power station is being crippled by current and former employees
There is a lot bearing down on South African consumers and, without growth, the economy stands to decline
The Covid-19 state of disaster response proved how quickly a government can act when it needs to
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the saboteurs are ‘obviously’ people working at facility
Since Eskom’s a no-go, perhaps our Minister of Monuments’ R22-m flag will be powered on arrogance and self-belief alone
The treasury’s relaxation of procurement rules will allow the state utility to attend to its ageing power stations far quicke
Disagreements over a basic income grant, labour law reform and how to save the economy mean consensus is still far off. But trade-offs – and political shifts – will eventually have to be made for there to be any hope of real change
Rolling blackouts are to last from 5pm until 10pm on Monday
The state utility’s generation division is central to the country’s energy crisis as its ageing coal fleet has caused South Africans to put up with 15 years of intermittent load-shedding.