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ANC

‘You are sabotaging us ahead of 2024 elections,’ ANC tells Eskom

ANC MPs blurred party and state lines by summoning Eskom’s top brass to a caucus meeting

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
There is no doubt that the future of electricity generation will be largely renewable energy and possibly nuclear energy. Photo: Supplied
COAL

Focus on improving the energy availability factor as a quick win to stop load-shedding

One of the main factors contributing to a sudden increase in load-shedding is not sustaining maintenance for the old fleet

  • Zwanani Titus Mathe
15 min read
National executive committee member Lindiwe Sisulu, who chaired the commission, told a media briefing on Saturday night that the proposal had been revived by female delegates partially as a response to the series of horrific attacks on women over the days leading to the conference. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

ANC Women’s League stands firm on chemical castration for rapists

The idea was rejected at the governing party’s last policy conference in 2017

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read