Climate commission presents its recommendations to Ramaphosa, highlighting that it is vital to decommission crumbling plants as soon as the power crunch eases
Don’t use geysers from five to nine at night, electricity minister pleads, while the cold, dark winter Eskom promised hits the country and power stations continue to break down
Our shameless president and ministers went to court to deny responsibility for the power crisis proving that the people no longer come first
The utility has said needs more funds for the fuel to meet a court order that public schools and hospitals are exempt from load-shedding
Ex-Eskom boss and former chairperson deny the intelligence on the ANC’s complicity in graft at the utility was withheld
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In all the bickering that we’ve been through over the past five years, from the long-running saga about the competence of former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to this week’s parliamentary hearings into André de Ruyter’s allegations of corruption at Eskom, it feels as if we aren’t making progress in dealing with the structural fault lines in our country
We are a nation at risk of losing our mind in the depths of the power utility’s problems
The former Eskom chairperson said a maligned investigation initiated by former CEO Andre de Ruyter was first mooted by the minister
The board released the former chief executive with immediate effect after he offered to go if this was its view
The mineral resources and energy minister says the plan to extend Koeberg’s life by 20 years will help alleviate the energy crisis
The former Eskom chief executive said he relayed all privately-gathered intelligence to the police and Minister Pravin Gordhan, and so did not breach his reporting duty
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The Hawks and SIU suggested to Scopa that the former Eskom chief lied about reporting fraud and corruption
The defence force won’t be much use in preventing crime at the utility, they say
Gordhan said his department would challenge a ruling that gives the state 60 days to exempt hospitals, schools and police stations from power cuts
The treasury has found a new way to throw its weight around. Who will it crush first?
The Pretoria high court has found that the rolling blackouts infringe on constitutional rights
We cannot allow the planned handover of Eskom coal power stations to the private sector to go ahead
Pick n Pay’s chairperson has called out government’s inaction on resolving the country’s structural economic decline
BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”
The treasury also hopes to change the behaviour of local government officials and restore financial management best practices
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The Pretoria high court granted an order, unopposed, to allow it to serve papers abroad in its defamation suit against the former Eskom chief executive
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The power utility plans to burn more diesel to reduce load-shedding levels, but the treasury won’t finance it
The former chief operating officer will advise the board and ministers and focus on projects intended to deal with load-shedding
Activists say the deaths of vulnerable people is too high a price to pay for electricity when alternatives are available
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South Africa’s roadmap for the move towards decarbonising the electricity sector must work for people and planet, tackling load-shedding and the climate crisis
Party says the move is to vindicate its ‘reputation’ but the timing suggests it’s a pre-emptive strike
When the president merged the mining and energy departments under his most powerful lieutenants he made a decision that would come back to bite him
The faux pas with the Finnish president is the latest in a series of embarrassing moves by our head of state
The ruling party wants a retraction and apology from the former Eskom CEO for implicating it in crippling corruption at the power utility
Despite pressure from the standing committee on public accounts, the former Eskom boss stood firm, saying he was not willing to divulge identities
The former Eskom boss has alleged that two senior ANC leaders are involved in corruption at the mismanaged, looted and sabotaged power utility
Turning around Eskom is an operational job and I suspect that policy statements on the future energy mix will only get the prospective CEO into a deep layer of trouble.