SCORE: B+ A remarkable milestone under Ramokgopa’s leadership is an impressive and sustained electricity supply record, with over 196 consecutive days without loadshedding for the year 2025 and over 400 days of intermittent power supply. The department’s Generation Recovery Plan aimed at improving energy availability and reliability has resulted in a 71% average in the […]
It will also try to ease dealings with its partners in the government of national unity (GNU), in particular the DA, ahead of local government election campaigning
Fikile Mbalula said differing views about unity government members were fine, but ‘personal attacks and labelling’ were not
Government’s partnership with business and the increase in solar rooftops, photovoltaic and battery storage has contributed to the decrease in blackouts
Eskom won’t cut maintenance, despite German consortium’s recommendation, electricity minister says
The country’s population now exceeds 62 million people, who are mostly living in formal housing with access to utilities
Improved capacity means stage four load shedding for the week ahead
Stage six is back as the ANC deals decisively with load-shedding
Experts warn that the power crisis may persist until the end of next year
A drama-free summit reminds the opposition that Cyril is still running the show
The lack of financial viability of councils is a threat to the state-owned-entity’s sustainability
Local companies may be missing a major opportunity for employee engagement in their quest to go green, according to WE’s latest research
Warsaw and Pretoria appear to be poles apart when it comes to the war between Russia and Ukraine
The public enterprises minister says the former Eskom board chairperson, Malegapuru Makgoba, misled and misinformed parliament and the public
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
Gordhan said his department would challenge a ruling that gives the state 60 days to exempt hospitals, schools and police stations from power cuts
Gauteng’s musical chairs in its economic cluster is a microcosm of South Africa’s biggest problem
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said he will only invoke the Disaster Management Act if existing solutions do not allow him to act with speed on load-shedding
Vrededorp residents say they are being ‘sabotaged’ by Johannesburg authorities because they are poor
The new electricity minister says that he will not interfere with the process of hiring a new Eskom chief executive but this needed to be done soon
The government should support independent power producers to come online faster
Janet Yellen’s statements on energy come amid stage five load-shedding
The brethren in blue took to Jozi’s streets in protest over power, galvanising and uniting the coms behind their leader
The cabinet reshuffle should move the mineral resources and energy minister to another portfolio
Opposition parties and other organisations aim to take Eskom to court over the crippling power cuts
We can’t continue this way, say ministers at discussion on energy
Eskom’s chief executive resigned but will stay on until March while a successor is found
Things won’t get better over the next 12 months, says spokesperson, as energy crisis deepens
Eskom’s Jan Oberholzer says South Africans should to prepare for more power cuts over the next year
SA’s three transitions will cost R8.5-trillion per year between now and 2050
Eskom’s new board faces the reality that the utility’s problems far outweigh the board’s solutions to achieve a 75% energy availability
Five generators at five power stations had broken down overnight, according to the utility