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Eskom on Monday morning announced that the Medupi power station’s first unit will not come online by December 2013 as planned, with the more realistic deadline being the second half of 2014. This set the deadline of the whole project back by six months to a year. The delay was announced
Parliament’s joint committee on ethics and members’ interests is expected to present the findings of its investigation into allegations of corruption against communications minister Dina Pule at the next full sitting of the national assembly, which takes place on 20 August. Pule appeared before
One of the Medupi’s six 800MW units will not meet its deadline to deliver power to the grid by the end of the year, Eskom said on Monday. “Eskom has confirmed that the December 2013 target date is unlikely to be met. A more realistic target for the first synchronisation of unit six to the grid is the second half of 2014,” the
Rubben Mohlaloga, who is facing charges of defrauding the Land Bank of R6m, has been named to the nine-person council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) by communications minister Dina Pule. News of his appointment is contained
Dimension Data’s Ksh3bn (R355m) acquisition of AccessKenya Group has cleared another hurdle. The Kenyan company’s board of directors has recommended that shareholders accept the offer. The news comes after Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority formally approved the transaction last week
An important security feature on the new Mandela banknotes, which were rolled out in November last year, has been found to be defective, it was reported on Sunday. The security thread, the most visible feature on the notes, which was meant to be embedded in the note, was
Ever been frustrated that data you bought from your telecommunications provider expired before you had a chance to use it? South Africa’s operators are entitled to do this, they argue, because you’re purchase airtime, you’re buying a service rather than a commodity. In other words, consumers are
Telkom appears set to face industrial action after talks between the telecommunications operator and trade unions Solidarity and the South African Communications Union reached an impasse on Thursday at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. The wage dispute began
The unexpected delay in processing the Independent Systems and Market Operator Bill in parliament sends the wrong signals to investors, creates uncertainty in the market and hinders those trying to enter the electricity market, according to independent power producers. The bill is
Twenty years ago, we thought that the solar system, with its collection of planets — which then included now-demoted Pluto — was unique. But in the past few years, new data, aided by planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, has shown that, not only are there billions of planets in the universe, in the Milky Way they are also
