Andre de Ruyter has the unenviable task of trying to turn Eskom around. It’s a good thing his hair is already grey.
Eskom wants to introduce a new ‘critical peak day tariff’, with the aim of decreasing electricity consumption in South Africa.
The World Bank has been watching on closely as load shedding returns, and the organisation has some pretty bleak predictions about what lies ahead.
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2020 is another bumper year for some of South Africa’s biggest political names, and could go a long way to shaping this country for years to come.
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Over the years, South Africans have had to develop a rather odd sense of humour about things like load shedding. Here’s Madam & Eve sticking the boot in.
South Africa’s most celebrated cartoonist has given Ramaphosa and our government a double dose this week.
According to President Ramaphosa, there are some nefarious circumstances behind the latest round of load shedding.
The good news is that we are, at the time of writing, sitting on Stage Four. The bad news is that things can, and may well, get far worse before they get any better.
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Eskom is in charge of our very own Koeberg nuclear plant. No prizes for guessing that there could be a crisis in the near future.
Andre de Ruyter is about to take over the most poisoned of chalices, and he’s already catching heat from a number of angles.
Unfortunately, load shedding is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t stay connected, online, and active when the lights go out.
Continuing on from his superb Helen Zille ‘wrecking ball’ cartoon last week, Zapiro has arrowed in on the mess facing Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan as he tries to fix Eskom.
Despite the fact that Eskom has hired significantly more people over the years, productivity is at an all-time low.
A lot of Eskom’s problems seem to be linked to the Medupi power station, and the situation is worse than you may think.
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If you thought traffic in the likes of Cape Town and Jozi was already a disaster, wait until load shedding strikes again.
Earlier this morning, a notification popped up on my phone about the return of the dreaded load shedding. Let’s hear from Eskom, then.
A plan to establish the world’s largest green-energy financing initiative is currently being formulated, and there’s hope that it could help turn around the mess at Eskom.
Just when you think you might have seen the back of load shedding, it looks set to rear its ugly head once more.
When people talk about a poisoned chalice, they may as well be referring to the Eskom CEO position by name. At least the money is pretty darn good.
If you want to see what throwing money into the void looks like in business terms, look no further than Eskom.
We all knew Eskom was in trouble, but it looks like things won’t be getting much better any time soon.
Now that the election is behind us, it’s time to check in on South Africa’s state-owned companies. Spoiler alert – it’s not pretty.
The state-owned enterprise has been in free fall for years, with gross mismanagement and corruption to blame. Sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words.
Although we haven’t been hit by load shedding for a while now, it remains one of the elephants in the room, and we’re nowhere near solving this crisis.
Eskom is struggling to keep the lights on, with years of mismanagement and corrupt practice finally catching up with them. It doesn’t help when the coal looks like this.