March 14, 2023
South Africa: These Five German Energy Companies Are Reviewing Eskom's Operations, Scopa Finally Told
International consultants from a consortium of five Germany-based companies are reviewing Eskom's operations. At least some of their recommendations must be implemented before the… Read more »
March 13, 2023
South Africa: Absa Expects Load Shedding Diesel Costs of Between R200 Million and R350 Million in the Next Year
Absa Group reported a rise of 13% in normalised headline earnings of R21-billion for the 2022 financial year, driven by significantly higher pre-provision profit which, in turn,… Read more »
South Africa: Four Ways to Fund Your Solar Power Solution
The government's recent announcement of a solar power tax incentive, coupled with the fact that rolling blackouts are unlikely to end any time soon, is set to propel solar power… Read more »
South Africa: Essential Service Staff Must Obey Court Ruling and Get Back to Work - Health Minister
Essential service workers in the health sector who fail to return to work by the morning of Tuesday, 14 March, will be committing an act of misconduct subject to disciplinary… Read more »
South Africa: Labour Appeal Court Orders NEHAWU to Inform Members of Strike Interdict or Face Legal Consequences
The Labour Appeal Court on Monday, 13 March interdicted any further strike action from Nehawu, pending further legal action. In a hard-hitting judgment, the court ordered the… Read more »
March 12, 2023
South Africa: Massive Explosion, Electricity Outages Leave Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Facing a Week Without Water
The Nelson Mandela Bay metro braces for week-long water outages after two major electricity failures and a substation explosion. Read more »
March 07, 2023
South Africa: Nehawu Strike Continues to Hit Hard With Widespread Reports of Deaths and Suffering
Day two of the interdicted Nehawu strike continued to rumble and burn on Tuesday, leaving dead bodies, exhausted workers and hungry and untreated patients in its wake. Read more »
February 27, 2023
South Africa: ANC's Reaction to Eskom Revelations Exposes a Party in Denial of Reality and in a Deep Ethical Crisis
The party is under intense strain and could easily fall in the elections next year to an unprecedented minority level. This is what makes its response to the claims of corruption… Read more »
February 22, 2023
South Africa: Godongwana Attempts to Heal Government's Self-Inflicted Wounds
The presentation of a national Budget is often a slightly strange affair; it is the prose of governance after what is supposed to be the poetry of the State of the Nation Address.… Read more »
South Africa: Godongwana's Speech a Blunt Instrument to Stabilise State's Foundering Ship
Stripped of plants, allegories, literary quotes and Bible verses, the 2023 Budget was blunt -- a stable finance framework for savings, investment and growth, structural reforms,… Read more »
February 23, 2023
South Africa: Power Utility CEO Released From Duty 'With Immediate Effect'
Eskom CEO André De Ruyter has left his job a month earlier than planned after reaching an agreement with the board. His early exit follows a candid interview on political… Read more »
February 21, 2023
South Africa: Even the Opposition Cheers As Gauteng Premier Lesufi Announces the Scrapping of E-Tolls
There were sighs of relief, cheers and applause inside the Johannesburg City Hall on Monday night when Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced the 'permanent' demise of disastrous e-tolls… Read more »
February 20, 2023
South Africa: Finance Minister Godongwana's To-Do List Is Long
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana must put the rands and cents to President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address political promises. It's an unenviable task - without… Read more »
February 19, 2023
South Africa: SA Bottled Water Association Fires Back Over Claims of 'Toxic' Mineral Water
SA water producers say researchers from Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University misunderstood and misinterpreted the results of their own study. Read more »
February 17, 2023
South Africa: V&A Waterfront - Consuming Itself, a Greedy Bite At a Time
It's the Monaco of Cape Town, a playground for the super-rich in a city infamously neglectful of its poor. Cut off, more than ever, from the city of which it is supposedly a part,… Read more »
February 16, 2023
South Africa: Cape Town Learners Stranded By 'Taxi Mafia' Blocking Scholar Transport
Parents and their children from Khayelitsha and surrounding areas were left frustrated this week as minibus taxi operators blocked scholar transport from taking children to school. Read more »
February 13, 2023
South Africa: Vrede Dairy Project - Legal Defence Prevents Testimony About #Guptaleaks in Free State Corruption Trial
Legal representatives for the defence strongly opposed the swearing-in of a witness by the State in the Bloemfontein High Court on Monday during the first State Capture trial. Read more »
February 10, 2023
South Africa: Stop Them! Why I Am Occupying a Shell Oil Platform Overseas
Nonhle Mbuthuma is from Sigidi village on the Wild Coast. She is one of the Greenpeace International activists taking action against Shell as it heads for a major oil and gas field… Read more »
South Africa: 'Dangerous and Mad' - Not Everyone's Sold On Electricity Minister and Another State of Disaster
President Cyril Ramaphosa had barely completed his State of the Nation Address when the DA announced it was going to court over the declared National State of Disaster on energy.… Read more »
February 07, 2023
South Africa: All Cape Town Train Lines Will Be Fully Operational By Year End - Transport Minister
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula was decidedly upbeat during two visits to Prasa sites in Cape Town on Tuesday. Read more »
February 06, 2023
Africa: Africa Must Not Lose Out On the Massive Global Demand for Critical Minerals, Warns Mineral Security Partnership
African mining nations have been warned not to miss out on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to benefit from the huge global demand for the critical minerals necessary for a clean… Read more »
January 29, 2023
South Africa: SA's Upward Rates Cycle Probably Nearing Its End - Experts
As a result of 'extensive load shedding and other logistical constraints', the SA Reserve Bank has revised its forecast for GDP growth to only 0.3%, the bank's Lesetja Kganyago… Read more »
January 28, 2023
South Africa: How the ANC's Years-Long Delays On Renewables Plunged SA Into Darkness and Scuppered Plan to End Blackouts
Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme was halted from 2015 to 2019, and then the energy minister chased a nuclear red herring. Read more »
January 22, 2023
South Africa: Power Utility Backpedals On Statement On Permanent Load Shedding for Two Years
Eskom clarifies its media briefing statement on rolling blackouts while the new Eskom board sets ambitious targets and hints at staff incentives to boost embattled power stations. Read more »
January 16, 2023
South Africa: Citizens Threaten Power Utility, Govt With Legal Action, Demand Stop to Rolling Blackouts
Several South African politicians and business people have instructed a legal team from seven law firms to demand that the government stops cutting the country's power. If this… Read more »