Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom on Sunday pushed load shedding to stage 4 and warned of severe power cuts throughout the coming workweek.

The outlook for load shedding for the foreseeable future has deteriorated significantly.

Three Eskom contractors and an Eskom employee have been arrested for alleged criminal activity at two of the utility’s power stations.

Eskom said it expects to reduce the intensity of load shedding by midnight, after which a mix of stage-2 and stage-3 cuts will be implemented.

Fast-growing Chinese smartphone and consumer electronics brand Xiaomi has opened its first retail store in South Africa.

Eskom had an ugly surprise for South Africans as they woke up on Tuesday morning: stage-4 load shedding had returned.

There was a sharp increase in attacks on ATMs in 2021, and while incidents of digital banking fraud declined, the value extracted by criminals soared, according to Sabric.

Eskom on Friday signed lease agreements with private power producers for the construction of renewable energy plants on its land in Mpumalanga.

Despite intense lobbying by South Africa’s motoring industry, government has so far refused to budge on the high import duties it imposes on electric vehicles.

MTN South Africa has appointed Wanda Matandela to the newly created role of chief commercial operations officer.