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Weighed down by crushing public expectation, Ramaphosa took to the dais at Cape Town’s city hall to deliver the 2022 state of the nation address. Did he get all his facts right?

Weighed down by crushing public expectation, Ramaphosa took to the dais at Cape Town’s City Hall to deliver the 2022 State of the Nation Address. Did he get all his facts right?

Argentina is one of the few places in the world where China has made considerable investments in renewable energy. It is Argentinians themselves who successfully pushed Chinese players to help rebuild their power grid from the ground up.

Massive price hikes, a failure to build new power generators and invest in alternative energy, pollution by non-compliant power stations – and now SA is facing another electricity tariff hike and possible “continuous stage 8 load-shedding”.

Massive price hikes, a failure to build new power generators and invest in alternative energy, pollution by non-compliant power stations – and now SA is facing another electricity tariff hike and possible “continuous stage 8 load-shedding”.

That is equivalent to more than half the capacity the utility had available during the evening peak on Monday.

Unused Mpumalanga land to be utilised for easier grid access.

“Like the general fuel levy, the electricity price is loaded with fees that the government uses for other purposes,” reports MyBroadband.

Will the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), which is about to turn one year old, have any real sway within the government? Will it help to shift current energy policy? Or is it just a talk shop, another of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s good ideas that delivers highly credible work, but infl...

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana will table his first Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in Parliament on 11 November.