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    Lack of load-shedding not helping economy yet

    Lack of load-shedding not helping economy yet It remains to be seen whether Eskom's unexpected elimination of load-shedding over the past 10 months has had a significant impact on South Africa's economic growth. Sunday newspaper Rapport spoke to several economists about why the country's...
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    Rich people part of South Africa's electricity theft problem

    Rich people part of South Africa's electricity theft problem Many affluent households that can afford to pay for their power are among the estimated 2.1 million electricity thieves, costing Eskom and municipalities billions of rand in lost revenue annually. Pretoria metering company Impact...
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    Ramokgopa meets with small nuclear reactor company X-energy

    Ramokgopa meets with small nuclear reactor company X-energy Minister of Energy and Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa recently met with a nuclear reactor company that has received a $300-million (R5.3 billion) funding injection from Amazon, Rapport reports. Ramokgopa's office told the...
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    Courier hijacking rise pushing up delivery fees

    Courier hijacking rise pushing up delivery fees Hijackers working in organised criminal syndicates are increasingly targeting couriers delivering online orders in South Africa, and customers are among those paying the price for this crime. Online shopping has seen explosive growth in South...
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    SA's state capture database confusion

    SA's state capture database confusion Anonymous sources have rubbished claims that investigators can't access Zondo Commission evidence due to a technical problem with a database, alleging they are being actively blocked from seeing the information. This is according to Rapport, which cited...
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    Eskom CEO lists primary goals in fixing electricity crisis

    Eskom CEO lists primary goals in fixing electricity crisis Boosting Eskom's energy availability factor (EAF), building gas power and new nuclear power capacity, and accelerating the expansion of South Africa's transmission grid. These are among the key goals Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has in mind...
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    Just two weeks of load-shedding for the rest of 2024 if Eskom keeps up good performance

    Just two weeks of load-shedding for the rest of 2024 if Eskom keeps up good performance Eskom's power station generating capacity recovery has been significant enough that South Africans might only experience two weeks of load-shedding in 2024, according to the Sunday newspaper Rapport. Amid...
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    Nersa failure could be good news for electricity users — bad news for municipalities

    Nersa failure could be good news for electricity users — bad news for municipalities South African households and businesses buying power from municipalities might avoid their regular annual electricity tariff hike in the coming months. Sunday newspaper Rapport reports that the National Energy...
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    South African train operators driving "blind"

    South African train operators driving "blind" Rampant cable theft has damaged South Africa's railway signalling systems to the extent that train operators are effectively forced to operate "blindly", necessitating frequent stops at railway transfer stations and manual phone-ins to avoid train...
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    Rustenburg residents and businesses must pay for replacing municipality's electricity equipment

    Rustenburg residents and businesses must pay for replacing municipality's electricity equipment Residents of Rustenburg in the North West have been paying for parts to repair electricity infrastructure belonging to the city themselves, Rapport reports. The issue was highlighted by civil...
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    Former Eskom procurement boss wants De Ruyter to retract "defamatory" statements in book

    Former Eskom procurement boss wants De Ruyter to retract "defamatory" statements in book A disgraced Eskom chief procurement officer (CPO) has demanded that former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter withdraw claims against him in his top-selling book Truth to Power. Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport...
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    GCIS planning to spend R1 billion on own video streaming service

    GCIS planning to spend R1 billion on own video streaming service The Government Communications and Information System (GCIS) is reportedly spending R1 billion on a new video streaming service. Sunday newspaper Rapport saw an email sent the Friday before last, 6 October 2023, calling for people...
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    Gordhan denies interfering in Eskom CEO appointment

    Gordhan denies interfering in Eskom CEO appointment Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has hit back at accusations of interference in the process to appoint a new CEO, stating the reported reasons for his rejection of the Eskom board's proposed candidate were lies. Gordhan provided...
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    Big microgrid growth in South Africa

    Big microgrid growth in South Africa Smaller privately run electricity networks are seeing a surge in demand across South Africa's most popular provinces due to severe levels of load-shedding, Sunday newspaper Rapport reports. A microgrid is a concentrated network consisting of power...
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    Report says Eskom chose poorly — French contractor fumbles Koeberg life extension

    Report says Eskom chose poorly — French contractor fumbles Koeberg life extension Several serious and costly blunders by Eskom and French contractor Framatome are to blame for substantial delays in the critical Koeberg life extension project, according to sources who spoke to Sunday newspaper...
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    SABC's poor management behind end of 7de Laan — report

    SABC's poor management behind end of 7de Laan — report The SABC was forced to axe the highly-popular Afrikaans TV soapie 7de Laan due to poor management and its ongoing financial crisis. That is according to feedback given to Sunday newspaper Rapport by an anonymous source. The paper describes...
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    Eskom wants to build 3,000MW gas power station — without spending its own money

    Eskom wants to build 3,000MW gas power station — without spending its own money The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved Eskom's plan to build a 3,000MW gas power station in Richards Bay. Sunday newspaper Rapport reports that Nersa recently backtracked on its previous...
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    Eskom might get its first woman CEO

    Eskom might get its first woman CEO Central Energy Fund (CEF) chairperson and former Eskom executive of customer services — Ayanda Noah — is included on a shortlist of potential candidates to take over as the utility's CEO. That is according to City Press and Rapport's sources within Eskom.
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    Eskom must write off R70 billion in municipal debt as part of government debt takeover plan

    Eskom must write off R70 billion in municipal debt as part of government debt takeover plan National Treasury will demand that Eskom write off some R70 billion in outstanding municipal debt as part of the government taking over a part of the utility's debt, Rapport reports. The publication...
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    More legal battles over load-shedding looming

    More legal battles over load-shedding looming Several organisations in South Africa are threatening to take Eskom to court over the impact of frequent load-shedding and the utility's failure to provide a comprehensive plan to address the rotational power cuts. That is according to a report...
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