Mantashe’s fossil fuel heavy energy plans are wildly out of line with needed climate action and a better energy future for South Africa
Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe said the transition to renewable energy cannot be an overnight accomplishment.
RET faction says the current NEC has become a liability
Powergroup South Africa wins 20-year energy contract a mere 10 months after it was formed
Magashule’s letter, in which he refused to step aside, said he would be appealing his suspension and added that he was “suspending” Ramaphosa. The letter is said to have angered the president.
‘I’m still the secretary general of the ANC,’ Ace Magashule told the Mail & Guardian, after he wrote a letter ‘suspending’ his party’s president
That is not how decisions are made in an organisation, the party’s national chairperson warns as Magashule sends suspension letter to Ramaphosa
During a top six meeting ANC secretary general Ace Magashule asked that step aside be reviewed every six months
The president conceded the ANC must answer for what happened on its watch as he took the witness stand days before the party is to expel implicated members refusing to step aside
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe, who criticised Ace Magashule and Supra Mahumapelo during an interview, said those party leaders who want the NEC to reverse its step-aside resolution used a ‘convenient blackmail argument’
Mantashe says it was part of the top six’s instructions to the Free State provincial leadership to file an intent to appeal its dissolution
Parliament should be asking the public what we think of Karpowerships before approaching the energy department about its deal
The speaker told the Zondo commission she doesn’t know why the legislature woke up to state capture so late, but believes this won’t happen again
The minister believes liquified petroleum gas is needed in the energy mix, but some experts are not convinced of its merits
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South Africa is once more experiencing periodic power cuts. These typically take the form of scheduled supply interruptions, for two to four hours a day, whenever the country’s electricity system is overloaded. Such overloading currently happens on 40-50 days a year. Eskom, the country’s power utility, recently admitted that such interruptions are likely to persist […]
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule plans to canvas for support from branches in an attempt to gain sympathy and walk away from step-aside decisions
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule’s chess moves are limited after the Ramaphosa faction dealt him and his allies a heavy blow at this weekend’s NEC
President Cyril Ramaphosa may axe a few of his struggling cabinet ministers and move some of the beleaguered state-owned enterprises to other portfolios
The National Assembly has adopted a report finding prima facie evidence of misconduct by 275 votes as an ANC caucus revolt is contained
The ANC chairperson has instructed its caucus ahead of the vote to establish a committee to investigate the public protector’s fitness to hold office
Magashule has received at least five letters from ANC caucus members unhappy with the chief whip’s backing of a vote against the public protector
The former president won’t appear before the Zondo inquiry into state capture, even if Ramaphosa and Mantashe do
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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Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live with every day
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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?