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Eskom remains the single largest fiscal threat to South Africa. And despite many promises from the president, he is yet to release a restructuring plan or appoint a permanent CEO of the utility.
Some researchers continue to insist that simulating neuroscience with computers is the way to go. These efforts as doomed to failure because consciousness is not computable.
You can mitigate some of the effects of load shedding through a range of solutions, some of them cheap and simple, some complex and expensive.
The late Oracle co-CEO was a relentless hustler and loved the art of doing business more than just about any other executive. By Ashlee Vance.
While the immediate causes of the generation crisis at Eskom are well known, the emergency it found itself in this week has been some time coming.
As South Africa enters its third day of blackouts, investors are still awaiting word from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration on how it’s going to fix the ailing state power company.
New research shows South African universities are good at producing academic papers, but not at translating them into innovations and patents. That needs to change.
That growing apprehension marks a stark turnaround for a company that has seemed invincible for years.
South Africa’s economy was roaring along in 2007 on the back of the global commodities boom when power shortages struck, bringing mines and smelters to a halt.