DA MPs refuse to participate in the State of the Nation Address red carpet festivities saying today is about the real issues SA faces.
The secret nuclear deal our leaders have signed with Russia carries many risks for South Africa.
We look at the nuclear agreement Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson signed with Russia last year and the implications thereof for South Africa.
The party says the power utility is harming the government and has taken control of its communications.
As the president’s State of the Nation address draws near, the federation is asking for extra government spending to boost the ailing economy.
The uptake of various new apps is directly proportional to increased load-shedding and news coverage, but developers are yet to make any money.
It’s tough being middle class when circumstances conspire to deprive you of basics such as running water and electricity, writes Adrian Ephraim.
The state-owned utility’s inability to complete the Kusile and Medupi power plants is consuming billions of rands.
Moody’s Investors Service are not holding out on Eskom’s finances improving any time soon, and neither should the country.
Eskom on Monday would not divulge what plans it has in the event of a national blackout.
The lights are going out but the power utility defends its generous pay to its executives.
The ruling party is to roll out new tribunals and processes in an attempt to clean up its act.
An ode to the long-suffering people of South Africa in light of Eskom’s perpetual rolling blackouts, by Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
The power utility said the power system is severely constrained due to unforeseen technical problems at power stations.
SA’s electricity infrastructure wasn’t designed to serve 11-million households, Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
Already four years behind schedule, the Limpopo coal power station is now only projected to be fully on line by 2019 at the earliest.
South Africa’s regulator will refrain from taking part in nuclear energy talks to ensure impartiality.
Days after the M&G revealed that Eskom bosses plan to attend the WEF summit in Davos, the broke power utility announced the trip has been scrapped.
Eskom is receiving approximately 200MW of electricity from its counterpart in Namibia, NamPower, as it struggles to keep the lights on.
The utility’s rebate project failed to reach its target for the installation of solar systems, and the energy department will now run the initiative.
Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said that while the week looked clear on load shedding they still couldn’t rule out the possibility of power cuts.
No rolling blackouts were expected over the weekend, power utility Eskom said on Saturday.
The power utility employed car analogies to explain that poor generator maintenance will be to blame for the lack of electricity in the near future.
The state-owned power utility’s bosses are off to a glitzy Swiss summit, even though electricity isn’t on the agenda.
Since 2008 when wet coal led to the country’s mines being shut down, it has been clear that the country has been in an energy crisis.
The installation of rooftop photovoltaic panels is on the rise, but South Africa is not as solar-friendly as it could be.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown finds herself at odds with Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson over how to resolve the Eskom crisis.
The EFF says that the ANC’s lack of foresight is to blame for the energy issues affecting South Africa, and not apartheid, as Jacob Zuma has said.
President Jacob Zuma used the ANC’s birthday celebrations as an opportunity to again shift the blame for the country’s energy crisis to apartheid.
The state-owned power utility is running on empty after forking out billions of rands to power up the grid with costly diesel.
Two of the power utility’s generators have failed, pushing up the risk of blackouts as engineers attempt to determine the cause of the breakdowns.
We caught up with some local celebrities and politicians to find out what they hope to achieve in the Year of the Goat.