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.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown finds herself at odds with Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson over how to resolve the Eskom crisis.
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.
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.
SA’s energy problems were a product of apartheid and government was not to blame for the current blackouts, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Will South Africa’s electricity grid collapse, plunging the country into weeks of darkness? Experts say it is possible, but unlikely.
Embattled SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala has been excluded from the new Transnet board, it emerged on Thursday.
The embattled electricity parastatal is heading to court over a disputed employee benefit scheme.
As Eskom forces the country into deterioration and gives rise to dark forces, there is little promise of an age of enlightenment.
The DA’s parliamentary leader also said that government should follow a "World Cup approach" to completing the Medupi and Kusile power stations.
The power utility said they apologised for the power cuts, but blackouts would continue until three of its generators are fixed.
An investigation by the parastatal’s board into the contentious ‘New Age’ deal will be finalised soon.
Parastatals are not primarily seen as development drivers or even as providers of services answerable to citizens, but as a source of patronage.
Eskom’s rolling power blackouts aren’t the problem, it’s the discontent many in South Africa are all too familiar with.
For starters, the utility’s overreliance on diesel turbines will hurt it financially in the short and long term.
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/ 26 November 2014
Power provider Eskom has asked its staff to consider voluntary retrenchment packages, and employees are to decide on participation before February.