Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom warned on Thursday that it is struggling to keep the lights on, potentially adding to South Africa’s misery after days of violent looting across KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng.

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The performance of Eskom’s generation fleet has been steadily increasing from the disappointing below-60% plant availability in April, and supply has consistently exceeded demand over the past week.

A powerful winter weather system, approaching South Africa from the west, has prompted Eskom to ask the public to reduce the usage of electricity to prevent possible load shedding.

Democratic Alliance MP and long-serving shadow deputy minister of communications Cameron Mackenzie has passed away, the party said in a statement on Thursday.

Nedbank plans to shift to a “hybrid workforce model” with a significant percentage of the bank’s employees not working in the group’s offices daily.

EOH Holdings could soon be blacklisted by from doing business with government – if the State IT Agency (Sita) gets its way. This follows the public sector corruption scandals uncovered at the group in recent years.

The Gauteng provincial government paid Microsoft $20.9-million, instead of R20.9-million, for software, costing the taxpayer millions of rand in exchange-rate losses, the Democratic Alliance has said.

The Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the Safaricom-led consortium that won a licence to build a network in the East African nation, has appointed Anwar Soussa to lead the venture.

Less than a year after joining Telkom’s board, former Openserve CEO Alphonzo Samuels has resigned as a non-executive director. The company has also appointed two new directors.