A blame game’s getting in the way of a solution to South Africa’s 14-year electricity crisis.
Author: Antony Sguazzin
Finland’s Wartsila expects South Africa to face electricity outages for at least another decade unless it installs as much as $8-billion of gas-fired generation.
Africa’s biggest renewable power company said it will take years for South Africa’s electricity supply woes to ease.
South Africa is looking for a way to both keep the lights on and the air clean after Eskom breached emissions limits.
South Africa has banned Bain & Company from bidding for public-sector contracts for a decade over alleged corrupt and fraudulent practices.
Karpowership will re-file an application to the environment department in a bid to move its project forward at a time when South Africa is suffering its worst-ever power cuts.
Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when Denel unveiled the Rooivalk attack helicopter.
South Africa will require R500-billion in private investment to end power cuts that are stalling economic growth by the start of 2025, Peter Attard Montalto said.
South Africa plans to try and resolve its chronic power shortage by making it easier for private companies to build plants and paying households and businesses to produce electricity from solar panels.
RT, the Kremlin-backed television network, is setting up its first Africa bureau as President Vladimir Putin seeks to entrench support on the continent.