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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansA fire at one of the biggest public hospitals in Johannesburg, the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, and the delay in reopening the facility has brought infrastructural issues into sharp focus. The fire broke out in mid-Ap...
·almost 3 years ago
Eskom informs the public that due to a loss of ten generating units at seven power stations. They have implemented Stage 2 load shedding which started on Sunday at 17:00 and will go until 22:00 on Tuesday night. Failure of three-gene...
·almost 3 years ago
The DA is calling on Eskom to provide an urgent state-of-the-system update and explain how its loadshedding schedule will be managed to ensure that it does not affect the vaccine rollout process. The latest announcement of loadsheddi...
·almost 3 years ago
This is a call for all South Africans to be part of the solution; to contribute in whatever way they can to ending energy scarcity in South Africa
·over 1 year ago
South Africa is once more experiencing periodic power cuts. These typically take the form of scheduled supply interruptions, for two to four hours a day, whenever the country’s electricity system is overloaded. Such overloading curren...
·about 3 years ago
Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, is facing a litany of challenges. The Conversation Africa asked Professor Anton Eberhard, director of the Power Futures Lab at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, to...
·over 2 years ago
The Environment and Infrastructure Services Department (EISD) cautions residents of Johannesburg to stay vigilant as Loadshedding returns to keep South Africans in the dark
·over 1 year ago
The loadshedding will be used to replenish emergency generation reserves during the night to bolster generation capacity
·over 1 year ago
Eskom confirms it has agreed in-principle with labour Unions to end strike
·almost 2 years ago
Continuation of loadshedding at Stage 4 until Sunday at 05:00
·over 1 year ago
“It is a simple fact that power lines and infrastructure cannot be worked on when there is no power, and cable theft increases exponentially during blackouts"
·over 1 year ago
Eskom has released a statement informing the public that loadshedding will be implemented from 22:00 tonight until 05:00 tomorrow morning. In the statement they said loadshedding is necessary in order to preserve and replenish the emerg...
·about 3 years ago
Load shedding will be suspended between noon and 5pm on Friday to allow Parliament to pass a series of Appropriation Bills, Eskom said Spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said: “Eskom will also be required to utilise some emergency ...
·almost 3 years ago
Eskom has announced the implementation of Stage 1 loadshedding between 17:00 and 22:00 Monday night tonight due to the loss of two-generation units at Kusile, and one each at Kendal and Tutuka Power Stations. These constraints have been...
·almost 3 years ago
Businessman Andile Ngcaba, the former chairperson of South African-based technology company Dimension Data, has brought a lawsuit against the company for over R400 million for unequal remuneration. The case raises interesting question...
·almost 3 years ago
The power utility says the delay in returning a generation unit to service each at Arnot, Kusile and the Koeberg power stations, as well as the failure of a generation unit each at Medupi, Hendrina, Camden and two units at Majuba Power...
·over 1 year ago
If tourism businesses are to literally and figuratively keep the lights on they must transition towards renewable electricity generation.
·5 months ago