Power Outages
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You don’t need a summit to clean a city; you need consistency
The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’
Eskom’s woes continue to pile up
We are a nation at risk of losing our mind in the depths of the power utility’s problems
Q&A Sessions: ‘I cannot fix Eskom. But we can fix this’ — André de Ruyter
Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…
Civil unrest turns deadly in Guinea
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
Get out of the way, Eskom
There’s only one option for South Africa and that is to scrap the flailing power utility
Offline horrors hit home affairs
One of the department’s centres was unavailable for 130 out of SA’s 248 working days in the past year
Nine and a half weeks in Vodahell
‘For a communications company, Vodacom is exceptionally bad at communicating’
Eskom coal silo under stress since January – Union
A coal storage silo that collapsed at Majuba power station in Mpumalanga had been showing signs of stress since January, says trade union Solidarity.
Eskom: Majuba coal silo collapse has ‘significant consequences’
South Africans are to brace themselves for more rolling blackouts while Eskom struggles to keep the lights on as a coal storage silo collapses.
Baragwanath blames power cuts on two employees
The Gauteng department of health has given warning letters to two employees over power outages at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
Eskom says power supply is tight during maintenance
Eskom says its power system is expected to be constrained for two weeks as generators are being maintained.
Power play casts Zim in the dark
Electricity crisis has worsened as power stations break down and international investors stay away from Zimbabwe.
City Power: Shifts had to change
Johannesburg electricity utility City Power has said it had to change workers’ shifts because they were irregular and illegal.
City Power outages ‘equal to an act of terrorism’
The actions of employees involved in turning off power at substations is equal to terrorism, says Gauteng safety minister Faith Mazibuko.
Parts of northern Jo’burg without power
Power to northern Johannesburg suburbs would be partly restored by Thursday evening after an explosion inside a sub-station, an official said.