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Grave concern: President Cyril Ramaphosa (above) regards allegations against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as requiring ‘the highest-priority attention’.

Faster reforms will spur faster growth: Ramaphosa

The president and the national treasury launched phase two of Operation Vulindlela on Wednesday, expanding its focus areas

The Pretoria high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1 500 megawatts of new coal-fired power to the national grid.
(Guillem Sartorio/AFP)

SA’s coal fired power stations here to stay until 2050

The Just Energy Transition Project Management Unit in the Presidency has highlighted plans to upskill people to work in the green economy and roll out infrastructure to support…

Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Electricity generation capacity continues to improve, says Ramokgopa

Planned outages will be short-term pain but long-term gain, minister says

Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ebrahim Patel announces a R1.3bn resilience fund to address energy crisis

The Energy One Stop Shop and Energy Resilience Fund is aimed at cutting red tape and accelerating regulatory processes in renewable projects

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action.(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA’s R210 billion grid dilemma hits pause on load-shedding fix

Renewable energy could close the gap between demand and supply, ending load-shedding. But out-of-pocket Eskom must find money to upgrade its transmission infrastructure first

Eskom board chair Mpho Makwana has resigned. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Eskom’s transmission company up and running soon, says Makwana

Eskom’s board chair was speaking on a panel about the country’s energy crisis at the South Africa Investment Conference on Thursday

Power up: The energy regulator holds hearings on tariff hikes in 2015. (Nelius Rademan/Beeld/Gallo Images)

Nersa to begin unbundling Eskom

The national energy regulator will decide whether the National Transmission Company South Africa will get a licence

Acting Eskom chief executive Calib Cassim. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

State of disaster a good thing, insists acting Eskom boss

Emergency procurement funds will not be abused, says Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

Wind energy is cost effective and pollution intolerant. One Megawatt of wind energy equates to 2 600 fewer tonnes of carbon emissions, in comparison with coal-fired energy generation. (Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Court cases ‘will not stop energy plan’

An energy action plan is slowly taking shape, with significant milestones reached recently, including obtaining a licence for Eskom’s new transmission company

Unemployment epidemic: These men, gathered together to wait for the possibility of a piece job, are some of the 34.9% of South Africans who are without work, the highest figure among 82 countries monitored by business news agency Bloomberg.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Slow implementation spurs frustration over South Africa’s jobs crisis

So says Rudi Dicks, who is in charge of coordinating President Cyril Ramaphosa’s initiatives to drive structural reforms and employment

‘SA can’t leave its shift to a low-carbon future to chance’

Innovation and creativity is crucial to guide financing, say experts

SA unions looking strong as succession talks loom

South African unions have wrested hefty wage increases from employers, wielding strikes as weapons at a time of high inflation and strong performance in the key mining sector and…

Cosatu policies go beyond ‘rhetoric’

When there are national policy debates, political "analysts" suddenly emerge. Many are seasoned and knowledgeable analysts who base their arguments on proper research. Others…