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The story of SA’s biggest power plant, and its little town
Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it
Dan Matjila’s grand plans to save Eskom
The former PIC chief muses over PIC debt-for-equity, privatisation and selling off power stations
Mabuza contract grows by R10m
Eskom’s negotiators in a R100-million maintenance contract came back with a proposal to push up the costs
Free up energy before the budget
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
Mabuza’s ‘distant relative’ scored big
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
Some tips for Eskom’s new boss
Regular maintenance, zero corruption and no emergency coal procurement are the main issues
On top of everything else Eskom also loses furniture worth R5-million
Items meant for the more than R300-million defunct Kusile accommodation project goes missing but no one is facing arrest
Power stations truck up Eskom’s image
Despite the exorbitant costs of new facilities, they are not delivering on expectations
Cancel Eskom’s odious debt to the World Bank
It was never in the public interest to incur a debt of $3.75-billion to build coal-burning Medupi
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Former bursary student hits a six and lands top job at WPCA
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SANRAL to professionalise its finance division with world-class professional accounting designations
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Empowering his people to unleash their potential
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