By Staff WriterAugust 28, 2016 Eskom forked out more than R130 million to a Gupta-owned mining company for coal the power utility couldn’t even use, according to a report in the Sunday Times, citing a…
African News Agency (ANA) August 9, 2016 More than 15,000 workers at Eskom to strike for their right to strike More that 15,000 National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) employees at Eskom are expected to embark…
Credit: PRETORIA NEWS Illegal electricity connections are visible in Matlejoane Street that divides Mshongoville informal settlement and Saulsville’s Black Rock section near Atteridgeville. Picture: Phill Magakoe NEWS/SOUTH-AFRICA/GAUTENG / 12 May 2016 at 10:07am By: RAPULA MOATSHE…
22 APR 2016 00:00 ATHANDIWE SABA A sting operation involving a private investigator posing as a farmer has uncovered a scam in which staffers sell transformers on the black market. To catch a thief, you…
FEBRUARY 4, 2015 BY TNO STAFF— IN AFRICA · Only sixteen percent of blacks in the sprawling South African township of Soweto, Johannesburg, pay for their electricity, while South Africa’s electricity supply infrastructure is rapidly…
JANUARY 29, 2015 BY TNO STAFF— IN AFRICA · In the most openly anti-white moves to date by the South African government, that nation’s president Jacob Zuma has announced that 2015 will see the first…
By Itai Vardi Global Research, March 10, 2016 Desmog 7 March 2016 In 2009, the South African government announced a major energy plan to construct two new coal-fired power stations. The project, which aimed…
Xolani Mbanjwa2015-12-03 09:56 Medupi power station (Photo: Lisa Hnatowicz/Foto24) Related Links Newsmaker: How Eskom CEO Brian Molefe brings the light No load shedding until next year — Eskom Eskom’s new-build programme for new power stations…
Illegal connections and electricity theft run rampant in South African cities, and to fight this problem is a massive challenge. By Chris Yelland – February 3, 2016 70 CommentsTweet The general public is regularly encouraged…
City Power says that vandalism of street lights in Johannesburg is an act of economic sabotage against the law-abiding ratepayers. “The rampant damage, cable theft and vandalism of timing devices on street lights is derailing…
