Brian Molefe wants this week to end. The second official week of winter has not been kind to the acting Eskom CEO, who has had to deal with bomb scares, gunshots, load shedding and unkind weather gods. “It has been
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A lack of money and skills and the high cost of coal and diesel continue to plague Eskom, a civil society conference on the country’s electricity crisis heard on Wednesday. “Finances need to be improved to enable Eskom to carry on with
Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear power station outside Cape Town was returned back to service on Tuesday morning after a statutory three-month refuelling and maintenance programme. Unit 1, which
Another senior executive has decided to part ways with Eskom after he was suspended ahead of a deep-dive inquiry to look into issues plaguing the power utility. Eskom and its suspended group executive for group capital, Dan Marokane, have mutually
It would be a major strategic error to privatise Eskom in any way, the South African Community Party said on Sunday. In a statement, after the conclusion of the party’s three-day central committee
South Africans could be saved from load shedding this winter, if acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe gets his way. Speaking at the launch of the Transnet Development Hub on Friday, Molefe said planned maintenance was mostly completed and so the utility
“This is the way the world ends,” writes TS Eliot in The Hollow Men, his masterful poem about death and dying. I’m sitting in the load shedding-induced silence, thinking about this remarkable poem
In a heated energy budget session, the Democratic Alliance gave energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson a roasting and continuously disrupted her during her budget speech in the national
It’s been 50 years since Bill Venter, then a 33-year-old telecommunications engineer, founded Allied Electric, the company that would go on to become the Altron group. Alongside publication of its results for the year ended February 2015, Altron
A project by retailer Ackermans to save electricity and reduce costs landed it a hot prize at the African Utility Week in Cape Town on Wednesday. The retailer was awarded the energy and water efficiency project of the year for its