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SAA hopes to resume European flights on Wednesday

South African Airways flights to London were set to start operating again on Wednesday following a grounding that has cost the carrier millions.

Frustration builds as SAA cancels flights

Thousands stranded as flight chaos continues

Travellers face another day stranded at South Africa’s airports as the chaos wrought by a volcanic eruption in Iceland continues.

Eskom to revisit tariff-hike plan

State-owned utility Eskom is to review its plan to raise tariffs on power in light of the global financial turmoil.

No power cuts planned, says Eskom

Eskom has no power cuts planned, the power utility said on Monday. However, demand and supply remained tight and any technical difficulties could result in emergency cuts, said…

Eskom might be forced to resume power cuts

Eskom warned on Thursday that it might be forced to resume load shedding as its electricity grid was under renewed pressure. Eskom has struggled to meet demand for electricity in…

Eskom: No load shedding took place on weekend

Eskom officials breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after making it through the weekend, and South Africa’s crucial rugby victory against Argentina, without any power cuts. ”We…

No load shedding over weekend, says Eskom

Energy levels were stabilising and no more load shedding was expected to be performed over the weekend, Eskom said on Friday. Eskom spokesperson Fani Zulu said there had been no…

Eskom: No load shedding (so far) on Thursday

Positive public response to conserving electricity resulted in no load shedding by Eskom since early on Thursday morning. Eskom officials said if the public continued to…

DA says Eskom caught napping again

Eskom has been caught napping again and has caused massive disruption to the public and the economy, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. ”Eskom has informed the public too…

Load shedding to leave parts of Pretoria dark

A number of electricity substations were to be switched off in Pretoria on Tuesday to assist in load shedding to alleviate a power shortage experienced during the rainy weather,…

Generators to banish ‘lights out’ at Twenty20

The three venues for the Twenty20 World Championship — Wanderers, Kingsmead and Newlands — have all decided to use generators as the preferred source of energy to light the…