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NECOM outlines plan for adding and recovering 8 800 MW in 2023 
By: Terence Creamer 31st January 2023 Initiatives being coordinated under the aegis of the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM) will seek to add about 8 800 MW of capacity to the... →
Maluti-a-Phofung clueless on solving municipal water problems
31st January 2023 It is unbelievable and completely unacceptable that the Infrastructure MMC, Shashapa Motaung, said that the municipality had no idea what to do... →
DA welcomes provision of R88.8 million to reduce blackouts in WC municipalities
31st January 2023 The DA welcomes the announcement by the Western Cape Provincial Government of R88.8 million in funding to reduce the impact of continuous load... →
Western Cape on emergency funding to mitigate impact of loadshedding on local municipalities
30th January 2023 At the first provincial Cabinet meeting of the year, held on Wednesday, 25 January 2023, emergency funding needed to mitigate the consequences of... →
Loadshedding is hitting South Africa’s agricultural sector and food inflation is ‘sticky’
By: Rebecca Campbell 30th January 2023 In its latest “Food Inflation Brief”, covering December, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has warned of the consequences of the... →
DA reveals Home Affairs applications deleted due to loadshedding
30th January 2023 The DA has discovered that Home Affairs applications are being deleted due to loadshedding. The possibility that this is also the case in other... →
Loadshedding crisis: DA again calls for bone-in chicken to be zero-VAT rated
27th January 2023 Permanent loadshedding is having a devastating effect on the poultry industry. This week the poultry producer Astral Foods said that they expect... →
Muddling problems and solutions
By: Terence Creamer 27th January 2023 South Africa’s power crisis is effectively death by a thousand cuts. It’s the consequence of decades of poor policy choices and inappropriate... →
