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Editorial: Crocodile tears from the coalface

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Pumping limited resources into a project that is predominantly meant to extend dirty coal energy in South Africa is not what local communities and the climate needs.
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‘We struggle for water, but power stations and coal mines don’t’

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A proposed pipeline will bring water polluted with Gauteng’s sewage to the Waterberg in Limpopo to boost the coal industry during the climate crisis
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Eskom cancels dodgy R100m tender linked to Mabuza’s niece

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An internal investigation revealed ‘irregularities’ in the process of awarding the contract
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The story of SA’s biggest power plant, and its little town

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Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it
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Dan Matjila’s grand plans to save Eskom

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The former PIC chief muses over PIC debt-for-equity, privatisation and selling off power stations
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Mabuza contract grows by R10m

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Eskom’s negotiators in a R100-million maintenance contract came back with a proposal to push up the costs
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Free up energy before the budget

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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
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Mabuza’s ‘distant relative’ scored big

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Eskom’s woes are often because of boiler problems at its power plants. R50-billion has been set aside to fix them, but some of the contracts are going to questionable entities
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Some tips for Eskom’s new boss

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Regular maintenance, zero corruption and no emergency coal procurement are the main issues
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On top of everything else Eskom also loses furniture worth R5-million

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Items meant for the more than R300-million defunct Kusile accommodation project goes missing but no one is facing arrest
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Power stations truck up Eskom’s image

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Despite the exorbitant costs of new facilities, they are not delivering on expectations
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Cancel Eskom’s odious debt to the World Bank

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It was never in the public interest to incur a debt of $3.75-billion to build coal-burning Medupi
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Eskom’s Medupi and Kusile to cost R36bn to complete, will not be halted — Mabuza

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​Construction on the issue-ridden Medupi and Kusile power stations, which began in 2007 and 2008, will go ahead
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Load-shedding a concern for 2019 poll

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A power outage during the counting process could place the process at risk and at worst, compromise the credibility of the election
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Eskom cannot rule out more rolling blackouts in coming months

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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
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