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
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
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
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.
Eskom will be freed from borrowing more money for its operational needs and capital requirements for the next five years because of the government’s debt relief package and the tariffs approved by the national energy regulator, Nersa.
The new chief executive is charged with ending load-shedding and unbundling the power utility into three divisions – generation, transmission and distribution
Hit by the pandemic, unrest and load-shedding, the province’s economy has suffered a chronic decline
No buffalo on the menu at South Africa/Namibia gala dinner
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has warned of stage 8 load-shedding for up to 152 consecutive days
Gauteng’s musical chairs in its economic cluster is a microcosm of South Africa’s biggest problem
The deputy president told the National Council of Provinces that the municipal debt relief would be conditional and application-based
The ‘big bulls’ told the electricity minister that his plan to extend Eskom’s coal fired plants should be taken to the National Energy Crisis Committee
The electricity minister’s plan will be discussed at a special cabinet meeting called by President Cyril Ramaphosa
The public enterprises minister said climate change had to be addressed but the shift to clean energy had to consider South Africa’s economic reality
A proposal to move some of energy minister Gwede Mantashe’s powers to the electricity ministry could result in a battle between him and the president
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has a tough challenge ahead
Eskom’s board chair was speaking on a panel about the country’s energy crisis at the South Africa Investment Conference on Thursday