State-owned power utility Eskom resumed rolling blackouts Friday after protesting employees blocked others from working and interfered with the electricity grid. Eskom, which generates almost all of the nation’s
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State-owned power utility Eskom said it will start rolling blackouts for the first time since 2015 as protesting workers blockaded plant entrances and disrupted distribution networks. “Acts of intimidation and sabotage have
Eskom confirmed just before 6pm on Thursday that it has been forced to implement stage-one load shedding. This is due to a strike by the utility’s workers which has involved “acts of intimidation and sabotage”. Spokesman
Eskom said on Wednesday that it is operating normally despite protests by workers outside four of its power plants following a breakdown in wage negotiations. Police surrounded five of the stations earlier when protesters
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It may seem a trivial matter, but the significance of the decision by new Eskom group chief executive Phakamani Hadebe to reintroduce weekly system status bulletins cannot be overstated. On Thursday, at the launch of the first
Eskom chairman Jabu Mabuza was almost apologetic on Thursday when he told journalists that the utility is proceeding with a court review of energy regulator Nersa’s decision to grant it a mere 5.23% tariff
Eskom has kept its pay offer to workers at 0% in a second round of wage talks as the South African power utility struggles to strengthen its balance sheet. “We still are sitting where we are, at 0%,” company
South African business confidence has declined to levels last seen when Jacob Zuma was still the president. The index dropped to 96 in April from 97.6 the previous month, the South African Chamber of Commerce
Eskom doesn’t expect current shortages of coal to force a return to rolling blackouts as it sources extra stocks and moves around existing supplies of the fuel. The state-owned company supplies almost