The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation directorate has advised residents to be more cautious about their water usage as the current rainfall is noticeably lower than the previous hydrological year.
Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will increase to stage 4 on Thursday (4 August) between 16:00-24:00, due to the continued shortage of generation capacity.
Power utility Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented today, following further losses in generation capacity.
Motorists filling up with petrol on Wednesday (3 August) will have seen a welcome reduction on their bill, following record highs in preceding months.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has published its Energy and Electricity Policy outlining how it thinks the energy crisis should be managed.
Sasol, South Africa’s biggest fuel producer, restarted the Natref refinery it owns with TotalEnergies SE after delayed oil deliveries last month resulted in a shutdown.
Power utility Eskom has warned that it might have to implement load shedding at short notice following a loss in generating capacity and a slow return of generating units to operation.
Finance minister Enoch Gondongwana has alluded at the government taking on a portion of Eskom's R400 billion debt.
Anything that is not forbidden is allowed, says the minister of mineral resources and energy Gwede Mantashe - on power ships and a state-owned power utility.
Power utility Eskom met with the chief executives and top leadership from 70 private institutions on Friday (29 July) to discuss possible solutions to the energy crisis.
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