Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone
The delay in additional capacity to the grid was not caused by a lack of private capital, but a lack of projects
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Those haggling over the keys to Durban city hall can’t smell the shit in the harbour
Eskom appeals to the public to help the utility to avoid more power outages by reducing electricity usage
The department of water and sanitation and Rand Water have addressed questions about the inauspicious timing of this week’s shutdown
Eskom has had 11 chief executives and countless board changes in 10 years, and its condition remains just as critical. Will another reshuffle make a difference?
Eskom’s chief executive, Andre de Ruyter, said a number of units were returning to service
The new finance minister said there would be no new bailout for Eskom or other parastatals, with the exception of Denel, which was thrown a lifeline after defaulting on debt to the tune of R2.9-billion
The finance minister says more grants would mean the money would have to be cut elsewhere as he sticks to fiscal consolidation
Inadequate electricity supply and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic remain a binding constraint on economic recovery in the near term, says the treasury
The beleaguered power utility has managed to recover 2000 megawatts in partial load losses from when it implemented stage four load-shedding earlier in the week
André de Ruyter assures the public that the power utility is currently on track to lift load-shedding on Saturday morning
The power utility’s external auditors said record-keeping was so inadequate that it would have to be resolved before management could devise a realistic plan to curb waste and fraud
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A growth-oriented bid-term budget statement would go a long way towards creating a fertile environment for new investments
Power utility plans to move to stage three rolling blackouts from Wednesday
Bernard Moraka and Victor Tshabalala were expected to be sentenced over their two-and-a-half-year stealing campaign
Saftu and NUM leaders warn that load-shedding will cause devastating job losses and scupper economic recovery
The state power utility, saddled with a creaking generation infrastructure, has been forced to increase rolling blackouts to avoid overwhelming the national grid
Economists predict the finance minister will speak about the basic income grant, the effect of the July riots on the fiscus, and bailouts
Eskom said it would scale back to stage 2 outages from early Saturday for the rest of the weekend but was no longer able to compensate by burning open-cycle gas turbines
Eskom has announced that stage two load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Tuesday afternoon until 5am on Wednesday morning.
The IEC came out guns blazing on Tuesday, despite thousands of voters who had registered in September being turned away because of technical glitches
Earlier this week, the ailing utility’s chief operating officer assured the public it would try to avoid load-shedding as voters head to the polls on Monday
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South Africa’s biggest polluters but they say they’re turning the ship around, but concerns remain over the use of gas as a fossil fuel in their proposals
The Tembisa 10 may be a figment of somebody’s imagination, but Eskom’s Misery Twins are not
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Stage four load-shedding rolled out to ensure the polls on Monday 1 November are energy secure
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Stage-four outages will continue until Friday after the loss of two units during the night, and three in total at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power plants tripping
Bernard Moraka and Victor Tshabalala, the director of a coal transport company, defrauded the power utility by claiming payments for work not done
The president lives in ward 90, which includes the wealthy suburb of Hyde Park
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The Ekurhuleni mayor’s family home and the Katlehong section in which it is situated are spared the debilitating five-hour blackouts from powerless Eskom
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Chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the ailing state power utility’s staff would be on standby as South Africans cast their votes on 1 November
After almost three weeks, labour and employers have reached a deal — setting the steel industry back on its path to recovery