Ramaphosa has raised South Africa’s investment target to R3 trillion after nearly R890 billion in pledges at this year’s investment conference, with Sasol’s R60 billion commitment emerging as one of the biggest – and a sign of business confidence tied to policy certainty
The national power utility is heading for a second year of profits but experts say tariff hikes and state bailouts remain central to its financial recovery
The national power utility is heading for a second year of profits but experts say tariff hikes and state bailouts remain central to its financial recovery
Under prepaid metering systems, customers must pay upfront for electricity before they can use it
Environmental justice organisations have launched a high court challenge against Eskom’s proposed Nuclear-1 power station, arguing that the 2017 environmental authorisation, upheld by Dion George in 2025, breached South Africa’s environmental laws
Any objective analysis must proceed from the premise that commissions of inquiry are not criminal courts. They neither prosecute nor sentence. Their constitutional purpose is to establish facts, identify systemic weaknesses and recommend structural changes
Labour federations Cosatu and the South African Federation of Trade Unions have led calls for a budget that addresses massive unemployment and weak growth
Not long ago, it was unthinkable that the leader of the DA would ever walk up the steps to the Union Buildings
For the first time in several years, electricity did not dominate the president’s address
A year after the president’s first State of the Nation address as the leader of a coalition government, performance has been good and bad
The Lanseria smart city remains a dream and hunger, unemployment and crime continue to be high but there has been progress in Eskom’s turnaround
The president said the South African National Defence Force would be deployed to support police in tackling gang violence and illegal mining
Four EU embassies in SA are supporting rural schools through education initiatives, advancing digital solutions for business growth and promoting clean energy and climate-smart horticulture to drive jobs, skills development and resilient local food systems
The new dawn that the President spoke about in 2018 is no longer an elusive mirage
A new climate-smart horticulture centre at Eskom’s Grootvlei power station, backed by the Netherlands, is testing how South Africa’s energy transition can deliver jobs, food security and skills
Molefe is currently out on R50 000 bail on charges of fraud, corruption and contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act and the Companies Act linked to his tenure at Transnet
Incoming NDPP lauded for his anti-corruption record as head of the SIU while critics see red
SCORE: B+ A remarkable milestone under Ramokgopa’s leadership is an impressive and sustained electricity supply record, with over 196 consecutive days without loadshedding for the year 2025 and over 400 days of intermittent power supply. The department’s Generation Recovery Plan aimed at improving energy availability and reliability has resulted in a 71% average in the […]
Afro-Map, which failed in its own bid to buy the transformer producer, filed the complaint, saying provisions of the Competition Act were flouted in the deal
Long-term leases turn public land into corporate profit, but it’s not clear how these deals are structured and whether communities are seeing their s
