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IRR: SA’s energy desperation justifies Kusile pollution exemption

South Africa has reached the point of energy desperation and cannot afford fashionable ideological indulgences, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has ...

Nuclear power is the key to SA’s energy future, but why is it taking so long: Andrew Kenny - Biznews

As storms and gales and torrential rains sweep over us shivering in Cape Town, my thoughts have turned again to nuclear power.

Affirmative action, BEE has brought Eskom to its knees – Kaya FM

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) warned that load-shedding would continue to worsen if the government refuses to put value for money before race-based ...

Eskom turns 100 today - Newzroom Afrika

Eskom is celebrating 100 years of existence today. It was on this day in March 1923 that the Electricity Supply Commission or ESCOM was established. A lot has ...

ANC’s shocking stance: Call to cut ties with France threatens South Africa’s economic growth - Biznews

When Sébastien de Place, president of the Foreign Trade Advisors for France in South Africa, warned the government last week of the risk to foreign business ...

Controversial judgment threatens to worsen SA’s loadshedding crisis – Andrew Kenny - Biznews

One of the most foolish and dangerous court judgments I have ever heard was made on 5 May 2023 in the Gauteng High Court by Judge Norman Davis.

Eskom to concession coal-fired power stations: Risky move or power play? – Katzenellenbogen - Biznews

Allowing Eskom to concession its fleet of coal-fired power stations to private contractors would have been politically impossible just a few years ago. With ...

SA’s Power Crisis: Cold winter inevitable with the longest period of blackouts and a lack of coordination – Katzenellenbogen - Biznews

A few days ago Eskom told us that stage six power cuts were to last indefinitely.

Beleaguered Eskom’s ‘equity’ drive is absurd – IRR calls for end to race law

South Africans have been the victims of rolling blackouts every day of 2023 thus far, in large part due to inadequate maintenance of electricity infrastructure ...

James Lorimer: ANC ‘s controversial oil and gas bill – greed, ignorance and ideology will keep SAns in poverty - Biznews

On Thursday, the votes of African National Congress MPs guaranteed that the Upstream Petroleum Development Bill – which governs how licensing of oil and gas ...