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Energy minister Kgosiento Ramokgopa said the issue would be resolved by the end of the week. Photo: GCIS

Multiple plant failures prompted Stage 6 load-shedding

Energy minister Kgosiento Ramokgopa said the issue would be resolved by the end of the week

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. (Leon Sadiki/Getty Images)

Ramokgopa: Eskom must focus on transmission and expanding the national grid

The electricity minister warned that if the country took too long to make decisions on transmission expansion, it would add to its electricity crisis

The Presidential Climate Commission has objected to extending coal-fired power stations beyond their natural lifespan. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images)

Extending coal plants lifespan will not solve anything, says Crispian Olver

Climate commission presents its recommendations to Ramaphosa, highlighting that it is vital to decommission crumbling plants as soon as the power crunch eases

Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Powerships for South Africa’s energy future

Powerships touted to be energy solution for South Africa

Eskom has announced a staggering loss of R23.9 billion for the financial year ended March 2023. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images)

Eskom winter ‘plan’ is to burn through diesel

The power utility plans to burn more diesel to reduce load-shedding levels, but the treasury won’t finance it

Former Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Jan Oberholzer to stay on at Eskom as an adviser

The former chief operating officer will advise the board and ministers and focus on projects intended to deal with load-shedding

Kusile power station.

The state of disaster that is Eskom

From irregular expenditure to energy precarity and deals gone wrong, the power utility is the talk of the town

Electricity consumption was down 8.7% year-on-year in February, StatsSA said. Photo Delwyn Verasamy

Electricity production fell in February, Statistics South Africa says

Eskom has implemented rolling blackouts to ease pressure on the national grid as its generating units struggle to keep up with demand

Russian president Vladimir Putin. Photo: Supplied

Lights on for Putin, as South Africa visit beckons

The Russian leader has more chance of being arrested at home than he does in Mzansi

Water treatment plants, along with hospitals, harbours, railways and other critical infrastructure are supposed to be exempted from load-shedding in terms of national state of disaster regulations promulgated last month. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa: Water works may be exempted from load-shedding

The government is in talks with Eskom to keep water pumps going during blackouts, the president told MPs

Cantankerous: Julis Malema argues with police at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. Photo: Emmanuel Croset/Getty Images

EFF marched but it was no Sri Lanka moment

Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Call me what you like, I have legislative powers, says Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

The new electricity minister says that he will not interfere with the process of hiring a new Eskom chief executive but this needed to be done soon

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile.

Ramaphosa’s cabinet reshuffle: Few surprises amid missed opportunity and mediocrity

Only the uninitiated or the hopelessly optimistic would have been merely disappointed by last night’s long and needlessly delayed cabinet announcement

Staying put: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is under pressure from some political parties to resign over the VAT drama and the national budget. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Who Patel and Godogwana could make way for, as cabinet reshuffle speculation continues

ANC insiders are almost certain that Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will not remain the cooperative governance minister for long

The New Development Bank pledges billions of dollars towards infrastructure development in South Africa.

Government gets $2bn more in pledges towards infrastructure development

The New Development Bank pledges billions of dollars towards infrastructure development in South Africa. Implementing infrastructure development is one of the measures the…

Minister Patricia De Lille says government is capable of turning the tide.

Government announces tailwinds on infrastructure project

Minister of public works and infrastructure Patricia de Lille and President Cyril Ramaphosa call for corruption crackdown in government during talks with investors on…

Tshwane mayor Kgosientso ‘Sputla’ Ramokgopa was joined by his family when he cast his vote at Seaparankwe Primary School in Atteridgeville.

2016 a ‘spectacular setback’ for Tshwane ANC — Ramokgopa

Kgosientso Ramokgopa’s status of chairperson has been turned to that of a convener

​SACP suspends 5 district members implicated in Tshwane unrest

The SACP also said it noted that the recent and renewed wave of violence in Tshwane was a continuation of previous divisions and factionalism.

‘Propaganda’: Controversial ANC councillor George Matjila

Fingers pointed at ANC councillor over Tshwane chaos

The man said to be the mastermind behind the Tshwane violence says it’s all a plot to discredit him by his political foes.

Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said that although fires are not common occurrences, it is important that these incidents be given urgent attention.

​ANC to go back to branches about mayoral nomination process – Tshwane mayor Ramokgopa

"The leadership says it hears your plea. We resolve problems through engagements," Ramokgopa told party members at a community hall in Atteridgeville.