The president’s latest energy commitments were meant to have been met years ago, but he struggled to get Gwede Mantashe on board
What to do, what to do… If only there was a way for Mantashe and De Ruyter to reliably produce power while protecting the environment.
Evidence presented at the commission points to the governing party’s MPs not being allowed to carry out their oversight functions
In its latest policy documents, the ANC is self-critical and wants ‘consequence management’, yet it’s letting its members off the hook again
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More than 11 800MW of new electricity capacity from independent power producers will come online in 2022, giving Eskom space to do more maintenance on its unreliable infrastructure
The government has promised that we will get to net zero emissions by 2050, but is still taking actions that will make the climate crisis worse
Board members have quit the gas company, accusing the Central Energy Fund of poor governance, and the energy minister of overreach
The academic year will extend into 2021 in a ‘deliberately cautious approach’ as president confirms South Africa has world’s fifth-highest Covid-19 infection tally
Senior South African politicians have not been spared the coronavirus. What happens if the head of state is not well enough to be at his desk?
Nearly half of all workplaces inspected by the department of labour found to be unsafe
Estimates hint that the scaling down of work in response to Covid-19 will result in a sharp drop in production in April and by 4.5% for the year
The energy department last week took out a draft of determinations proposing more than 13000MW of power to be supplied
Despite the government’s announcement of a R30-billion sovereign wealth fund, analysts are questioning its utility in a time of increasing debt
SOEs must be dynamic growth enablers if they are to be deemed strategic assets for the economy
He must end the Mantashe problem and execute his strategy rather than keep the ANC onside
The challenge to deliver a persuasive speech comes firstly in the context of intense doubts as to whether President Ramaphosa is truly in charge of the ANC
Proposed amendments to the legislation mandate meaningful consultation with communities but critics say there are loopholes
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to do the right thing – bring independent power producers on to the grid. He must act despite opposition from top ANC members
To improve the South African economy, we need to institute practical measures to effect change
President Ramaphosa is in a disastrous position for someone elected the way he was and with enemies circling
"The ANC’s long history and continued survival is something to marvel at. But celebrating the mere fact of survival is really not enough"
Gwede Mantashe needs to shift from costly, climate crisis-inducing fossil fuels to renewables
It was a helluva week, particularly after my cellphone died. But I found an old phone number for Gwede
The department of mineral resources and energy did not explain why the former Railway Safety Regulator CEO, Nkululeko Poya, was appointed to the CEF
Nkululeko Poya admitted to spying on a journalist and his former colleagues — now he’s been appointed to the board of a parastatal
The need for electricity is so dire that there are suggestions for power station ships be brought into South African ports and plugged into the grid
Workers are protesting against South Africa’s destabilising energy policies: they want a just transition that doesn’t leave them jobless
Eskom is spending R4.5m more on coal each day because of contracts that are lucrative for certain producers
There’s a climate crisis. Eskom, whose plants burn carbon-producing coal, is in a financial crisis. It’s time to disrupt policy inertia
The minister of mineral resources and energy, Gwede Mantashe, has announced that his department will not be extracting gas by way of fracking
The ANC’s national chairperson says there are people ‘waiting in the wings’ to ‘cash out for maximum benefit’