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Determined: Climate change demonstrators from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in central London, promising two weeks of disruption. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

COP26: Fossil fuel firms sponsor climate talks

Views about multinational energy and gas companies sponsoring the United Nations climate conferences are strongly divided

The Medupi (above) and Kusile boilers are substandard, because the ruling party hijacking their manufacturing process for their own profit. (Madelene Cronjé/M&G)

Medupi fails two tests already

The new plant can’t meet World Bank’s loan conditions or sulphur emissions limits

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Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Today’s ANC is a criminal enterprise masquerading as moral and political “leaders of society”

The criminal prosecution and lawful dissolution of the ANC are not only morally desirable but legally justifiable too

Controversy over kickbacks paid to Chancellor House by the engineering multinational surfaced this week.

Hitachi now in African Development Bank’s sights

The company has already coughed up R260m after US SEC charged it over payments to ANC funding front Chancellor House.

Controversy over kickbacks paid to Chancellor House by the engineering multinational surfaced this week.

Hitachi now in AfDB’s sights

The company has already coughed up R260m after US SEC charged it over payments to ANC funding front Chancellor House.

Hitachi fine won’t lighten the darkness

South Africa’s electricity shortage endures as the Chancellor House deal to build Eskom power stations grabs headlines once more.

Eskom on Medupi delay: We take full responsibility

Eskom has been "on the back foot" of its Medupi power station project from the get-go, says its financial director, Paul O’Flaherty.

Chancellor House was reportedly paid a ‘success fee’ after Hitach Power Africa’s bid was given the green light.

Hitachi’s Chancellor House dodging

Hitachi Power Africa fudged key issues this week in a media blitz intended to extricate it from the row over ANC business front Chancellor House.

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has defended Chancellor

Opposition slams ANC ‘about-turn’ on Hitachi

Opposition parties have lambasted the ANC’s turnaround on its investment in Hitachi, saying the ruling party is "playing the country for fools".

Hitachi may seek public funds

Japanese high-tech giant Hitachi may seek a government loan to help it cope with massive losses, its new president said on Monday.

Eskom to build power station in Limpopo

Hitachi and Alstom have been awarded the R20-billion boiler and the R13-billion turbine contracts respectively for Eskom’s Medupi power station at Lephalale in the Limpopo…