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Cape Town 'preparing for the worst' as load shedding persists - Geordin Hill-Lewis
By: News24Wire 4th July 2022 The City of Cape Town is bracing itself for more extended stages of load-shedding as the country prepares for ongoing rolling blackouts this week.... →
Koeberg bungling causes more load shedding again
1st July 2022 As the threat of stage 6 load shedding looms, it has been reported that Koeberg’s unit 2 will be starting up soon after being offline for a month... →
Gordhan says Eskom, unions reach wage agreement; hopes second day of Stage 6 load-shedding can be avoided

By: Chanel de Bruyn 28th June 2022 Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday evening said he was hopeful that Eskom would be able to avoid implementing Stage 6... →
Stage 4 load-shedding extended into weekend as illegal strike disrupts coal plants 
By: Terence Creamer 24th June 2022 Eskom has extended Stage 4 load-shedding – initially implemented at 11:00 on Friday June 24, as an illegal strike led to the loss of more coal... →
Eskom collapsed wage talks because it refuses to account for corrupt diesel, coal and IPP contracts
22nd June 2022 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) met with Eskom management under the auspices of the Central Bargaining Forum (CBF) for... →
Eskom has 32 GW of grid capacity, but not where most renewables investors want it

By: Terence Creamer 17th June 2022 Eskom acknowledges that transmission constraints remain an obstacle to the introduction of new renewables generation, but the utility also... →
Water and Sanitation on water storage in Northern Cape
8th June 2022 The weekly state of reservoirs report of the Department of Water and Sanitation indicates a week on week decline in water storage in the Northern... →
Rare earths mining marking time amid prospecting bid to explore on same site 
By: Martin Creamer 7th June 2022 A rare earths development is marking time owing to a prospecting right appeal to explore where a mining right has already been granted,... →