President Cyril Ramaphosa said Eskom’s financial position “remains untenable” and urged non-paying citizens to change a culture of non-payment.
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Scientists have developed an “artificial skin” that they say can wrap around devices such as smartphones and make them ticklish.
Eskom has said no load shedding is expected on Monday and the probability of load shedding is low for the week.
Eskom ended controlled blackouts on Saturday as power supplies improve, it said in a statement.
The company that runs Africa’s largest public Wi-Fi network is being liquidated after the unprofitable business failed to secure new investors.
In South Africa, solar and wind are in, and coal is gradually on the way out. That’s the key takeaway from the latest Integrated Resource Plan, which maps out the energy mix for the next decade.
Long-term exposure to blue light emitted by smartphones, laptops and other digital devices may lead to brain damage and speed up the ageing process, scientists say.
Eskom says it has had another major setback at its Medupi power station and will be implementing stage-1 load shedding from 9am to 12pm and thereafter revert to stage-2 load shedding until 11pm.
MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa said on Thursday that it is not the company’s responsibility to save rival Cell C, but it’s also not in the interests of the telecommunications sector or the country to allow it to fail.
Global technology distributor Ingram Micro has confirmed an earlier TechCentral report that it will close its South African office, citing the “relatively small size of the operation”.