Work that Eskom has done to alleviate the country’s energy crisis will help ensure the situation won’t be as dire as it might have been, says Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer.
The co-chairman of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) Gareth Ackerman says that the private sector can no longer wait for the government to solve the country’s worsening infrastructure crisis because the state is failing to deliver.
The national power utility has yet again extended load shedding this time until the end of the working week.
The Government’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), gazetted in 2019, states that 78GW of energy capacity is needed by 2030 – but the sheer estimated costs involved in getting there, coupled with the underwhelming progress of government projects, suggest ...
Eskom announces more load shedding despite recent reprieve in the form of a suspension.
Power utility Eskom says it will suspend load shedding from 05:00 on Saturday morning.
South Africa’s port and freight-rail operator declared force majeure across all of the nation’s harbors after its employees began a strike over wages. Mining stocks dropped.
Several bodies, including energy analyst Ted Blom and former Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) chair and leader of the African People’s Convention Themba Godi, have raised red flags of potential conflict of interest among Eskom’s new board ...
The decreasing reliability of Eskom's energy supply and recent consistent load shedding has significantly impacted mining costs and operations - and companies are now being forced to look for an alternative, says financial services firm PwC.
South Africa’s Eskom Holdings chief executive officer Andre de Ruyter said power cuts should start easing within the next 10 days when big generation units are expected to come back online.
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