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July 18, 2023
South Africa: Arcelormittal SA Shares Crash After Headline Earnings Expected to Tumble Into Red On Rolling Blackouts
ArcelorMittal's South African share price sank by more than 40% on Tuesday after the steelmaker said it expected interim headline earnings to tumble into a loss in the face of the… Read more »
June 29, 2023
South Africa: Factory Gate Inflation Slows in May, but Reserve Bank Signals Rates to Remain Elevated
South Africa's producer price index slowed to 7.3% on an annual basis in May from 8.6% in April. This follows a significant softening of consumer inflation in the same month. But… Read more »
May 24, 2023
South Africa: Why Splitting Eskom Into Three Separate Entities Is a Terrible Idea
In South Africa, with very rapid growth in renewables, one thing we do not need is an unreliable transmission network. If we do not focus closely on where new power sources are… Read more »
May 15, 2023
Africa: Courts Cannot Run South Africa and Most Certainly Cannot Fix Eskom
A central feature of any legal system which adheres to the rule of law is compliance with the principle of certainty. A capricious system in which rules can be changed at the whim… Read more »
May 14, 2023
South Africa: Unplugged - Why Is South Africa So Far Behind On the Race to Electrify Vehicles?
In the midst of what seems like a never-ending energy crisis, it seems absurd to consider electrifying our transport. But the global race to electrify vehicles is picking up -- EVs… Read more »
May 12, 2023
South Africa: 'Add Those Megawatts' - Ramaphosa Backs Karpowership and Slowing Down Coal Power Plant Decommissioning
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signalled his support for the controversial Karpowership emergency power deal, saying that was 'the way to go right now to add those megawatts'. He… Read more »
May 11, 2023
South Africa: Eskom's Age of Chaos and Uncertainty Shows No Sign of End in Sight
While the government and the ANC have promised to fix South Africa's electricity crisis, there is much evidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa is not in control of the situation. Read more »
April 03, 2023
South Africa: Durban Agrees to Provide 'Action Plan' On Sewage Pollution - - One Year After the Floods
Nigh on a year after devastating floods hit the KwaZulu-Natal coastline, Durban municipal leaders have agreed finally to publish a detailed 'action plan' to repair and upgrade the… Read more »
March 27, 2023
South Africa: Hundreds Left Homeless After Fire Sweeps Through Hout Bay's Imizamo Yethu
A fire destroyed dozens of shacks in Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay on Sunday evening. Some residents lost their homes for the second time in less than a year. Gift… 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 »
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 »
December 22, 2022
South Africa: Karpowership's Environmental Hazards Controversially Reduced in New Eia Specs
The revisions appear to have lowered several of the predicted risk profiles for harbour workers should fires or explosions break out accidentally around the proposed gas-to-power… Read more »
South Africa: Humanitarian Crisis Looms in Karoo As Eskom Institutes Load Reduction On Top of Rolling Blackouts in Defaulting Municipalities
Many defaulting municipalities across SA were hit on Thursday by load reduction -- on top of load shedding. In the Karoo, with its high summer temperatures and a water system… Read more »
December 18, 2022
South Africa: We All Saw the Durban Sewage Crisis Coming, but Remained Silent
Dr Imraan Buccus is senior research associate at ASRI. Read more »
December 14, 2022
South Africa: De Ruyter's Resignation Sparks Political Call for State of Disaster at Eskom
Soon after the resignation of Eskom's CEO, André de Ruyter, was confirmed on Wednesday, political parties raised concerns over the state of the energy utility, which has… Read more »
South Africa: André De Ruyter's Year From Hell - and Then He Lost His Political Cover
As he faced down sabotage, a week of savage attacks by the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe and a grid in freefall on his own, Eskom's CEO André de… Read more »
South Africa: De Ruyter's Resignation From Eskom a 'Major Blow' for Power Utility's Reform, Warn Business and Investment Experts
The timing of André de Ruyter's departure as the Eskom CEO is arguably terrible as SA is in the throes of unprecedented and sustained levels of rolling blackouts. There will… Read more »
December 05, 2022
South Africa: How President Ramaphosa's Plan to Fix South Africa's Rail Network Has Derailed
The much-vaunted plan, which involves allowing private sector players to independently run trains and invest in Transnet's infrastructure, has bombed. And the state-owned… Read more »
November 10, 2022
South Africa: South Africa's R1.5-Trillion Plan for Decarbonising in the Next Five Years
In a nutshell, the plan focuses on decarbonising and developing three key sectors: electricity, new-energy vehicles and green hydrogen. It will cost about R1.5-trillion. Read more »
July 07, 2022
South Africa: SA Lags Behind in Facing Up to the Magnitude of Global Energy Insecurity
Acute energy insecurity threatens much of the world right now. But there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel in the hardest-hit developed economy, Europe, where… Read more »
June 29, 2022
South Africa: How the City of Cape Town Managed to Avoid Stage 6 Load Shedding Thanks to Hydroelectric Scheme
While the rest of South Africa is being hit with Stage 6 load shedding, the City of Cape Town has offered some relief to its residents through the use of the Steenbras… Read more »
June 27, 2022
South Africa: The Meat Industry Is Telling Us Porkers
It is a fairly well-known fact that the Normans, people who would later be known as French, contributed about 30% of the words that are now part of the English language, following… Read more »
June 26, 2022
South Africa: Is It Too Late for Salvation? a Tale of Two Cities As Day Zero Looms
The DA's Helen Zille lived through Cape Town's battle to avert Day Zero in 2018. Other than heavy rain, she does not see a way for Nelson Mandela Bay to avoid water outages across… Read more »
May 29, 2022
South Africa: ConCourt to Hear of 'Human Catastrophe' After Eskom Cuts Off Municipalities Owing Billions
Eskom has cut the electricity supply of two local municipalities that collectively owe R2.8bn, causing devastation for municipalities at the forefront of employment and economic… Read more »
South Africa: The Long and Short of Load Shedding Solutions - Time to Call Disaster and Harness the Power of Wind and Solar Energy
The huge cost of load shedding could have disastrous economic consequences and cause civil unrest that makes July 2021 pale into insignificance. If the problem is tackled… Read more »
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