President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Monday evening about the energy supply crisis in South Africa and government’s plans to address the problem.
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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.
Telkom paid its former group CEO, Sipho Maseko, R20-million in retention bonuses in the past two years plus a R32-million restraint to prevent him being poached by competitors.
South Africa has formally asked the United Arab Emirates to extradite Rajesh and Atul Gupta, the justice minister said on Monday.
Articles claiming Eskom will impose a new R938 levy on South African solar users are “fake news”. There is no proposed special levy for solar users.
The first phase of US company Vantage Data Centers’ new data centre at Waterfall City in Midrand has been completed ahead of schedule.
Eskom has blamed “electrical faults”, likely caused by mist, for knocking out five generating units at the Kriel power station on Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in February that it was a “matter of sovereignty” to create a satellite offering that could rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX. He could now be getting his wish.
The global push to develop lab-grown meat is taking an exotic twist in South Africa, where slaughter-free cuts of springbok, wildebeest and impala could soon be on the menu.
Eskom will suspend scheduled power cuts for the first time in five weeks after the generation system recovered sufficiently.