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.
Eskom talks a good game about getting us out of this mess, but if you cast an eye to the future, the picture is a little less pretty.
Yesterday, Pravin Gordhan, his new technical review team, and Eskom’s top brass announced their new plans. Not everyone seems impressed.
Load shedding has been suspended, but experts know that it will soon be back with a bang. Here’s how to keep your business going when the lights go out.
We’ve all been conned from time to time, which is pretty crummy, but Eskom buying rocks from coal suppliers has consequences for the whole country.
Eskom has been quick to rubbish reports of stage five and six load shedding. One expert, who calls them “absolute liars”, says it’s already happening.
Just when you think Eskom has reached peak incompetence, along come accusations of sabotage from the inside.
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I know you know it’s bad, because weekends are for hangovers, not load shedding, but experts have laid bare just how buggered Eskom really is.
Why is there load shedding again, after Zuma told us we were safe in 2016? What’s this about Eskom being R420 billion in debt? How did we get to this point? Those and other questions tackled here.
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South Africa is looking at another day of load shedding and frustration. If you’re not sure where to direct your anger, here’s a good place to start.
Load shedding is alive and well again, and we are on stage four for the rest of the day. Even stage two has dire consequences for the economy.
As we enter another day of stage two load shedding, it’s worth taking a look forward to see how long we might be in this mess.