Capital markets are no longer falling over themselves to fund our electricity generation, but South Africa’s leaders should have acted with urgency years ago
Why load-shedding is not only a South African problem
Solving our electricity crisis is set to become more difficult as the world now faces power shortages. We aren’t the only game in town
They said the electricity crisis and blackouts are ‘causing human suffering’, costing the South African economy billions
Rising electricity prices, power outages, increasing awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decreasing solar technology costs are driving the rooftop solar market in South Africa
Beleaguered residents of Palm Springs in the Emfuleni local municipality in Gauteng have been living without electricity and with sewage running in the streets
Load-shedding and electricity prices are projected to double in next five years
Power cuts are expected until Friday while the utility relies on emergency reserves
Eskom has had 11 chief executives and countless board changes in 10 years, and its condition remains just as critical. Will another reshuffle make a difference?
After almost three weeks, labour and employers have reached a deal — setting the steel industry back on its path to recovery
The decision to use Turkey’s floating power plants locks the country into fossil fuels for 20 years
Irregular contract modifications have caused both costs and delays to escalate
Between load-shedding and the Covid-19 pandemic, things are bleak. At least I’ve stocked up on cannabis
The latest economic figures and the effect of the coronavirus on the global economy are bad news for South Africa’s already tepid domestic growth outlook
The party’s vision for Eskom seems to be one designed to benefit vested interests rather than the greater good
President warns of tougher economic times ahead as the world’s leaders plan for a global economic slowdown
The country’s economy grew by only 0.2% in 2019, after it experienced contractions in both the third and fourth quarter
The treasury’s rejection of South32’s proposal to increase the value of its Eskom contract by R1.2-billion could spark a coal shortage for the parastatal
The ambush will take place at an NEC meeting about Eskom. But the real target is Cyril Ramaphosa
The blackouts are man-made and the result of corruption, crony politics and mismanagement
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
Eskom workers say they knew two weeks ago that the power crash was coming, but maintenance problems have been consistently overlooked
Experts say the increase in GDP is largely a result of a decrease in load-shedding in the second quarter
StatsSA released South Africa’s economic output on Tuesday with the main contributors to the collapse being manufacturing, mining and agriculture
It’s perfectly normal for the ongoing stress of load-shedding and water outages to leave you feeling blue
Are we so in thrall to images of wealth that we would just stand there, agog at the spectacle, and not wonder about all this wasted electricity?
From corner bakeries to mines, businesses bear the brunt of the power-cut pain, with alternative energy generation solutions mired in bureaucracy
Our yearning for good news lets our critical faculties fly into exile, so we need to be grounded
The chief electoral officer’s years of experience will help ensure citizens’ choices are honoured
The power utility is facing a myriad of problems, warning it cannot rule out the continued possibility of load-shedding for the coming 6-12 months
Eskom says that South Africans will face load shedding all day on Monday because of a capacity shortage
While Eskom goes from one controversy to the next, the dissatisfaction of its workforce poses a real danger to Eskom’s ability to keep the lights on