The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’
We are a nation at risk of losing our mind in the depths of the power utility’s problems
Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
There’s only one option for South Africa and that is to scrap the flailing power utility
One of the department’s centres was unavailable for 130 out of SA’s 248 working days in the past year
‘For a communications company, Vodacom is exceptionally bad at communicating’
A coal storage silo that collapsed at Majuba power station in Mpumalanga had been showing signs of stress since January, says trade union Solidarity.
South Africans are to brace themselves for more rolling blackouts while Eskom struggles to keep the lights on as a coal storage silo collapses.
The Gauteng department of health has given warning letters to two employees over power outages at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
Eskom says its power system is expected to be constrained for two weeks as generators are being maintained.
Electricity crisis has worsened as power stations break down and international investors stay away from Zimbabwe.
Johannesburg electricity utility City Power has said it had to change workers’ shifts because they were irregular and illegal.
The actions of employees involved in turning off power at substations is equal to terrorism, says Gauteng safety minister Faith Mazibuko.
Power to northern Johannesburg suburbs would be partly restored by Thursday evening after an explosion inside a sub-station, an official said.
