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The presidency today released an update on interventions President Cyril Ramaphosa promised six months ago to undertake to deal with the crisis.

The presidency today released an update on interventions President Cyril Ramaphosa promised six months ago to undertake to deal with the crisis.

In late July, President Cyril Ramaphosa went on national television to announce a new electricity emergency plan to stop horrendous winter load-shedding. South Africans were “fed up”, he said, with their hopeless power supply, writes Peter Bruce.

If we take solar generation to a higher level, for example, commercial and residential rooftops, there is a massive amount of real estate we can leverage. This can be used for embedded generation as well as be fed back into the national grid.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has lamented the economic devastation that Eskom’s daily load-shedding is having on the economy and prospects for foreign direct investment.

The bank is confident its funding of renewable energy projects, currently at R23bn, will double as a total percentage of group loans by 2030

The bank is confident its funding of renewable energy projects, currently at R23bn, will double as a total percentage of group loans by 2030.

Rudi Dicks, joint head of Operation Vulindlela, which was launched two years ago to drive structural reforms, says unless crime is dealt with there won't be the necessary investment and the project will be jeopardised.

The role of the NPC is to provide strategic planning for the country. However, in recent weeks it has found itself breaching the lobbying, policy advocacy and policy review line, writes Lungile Mashele.

To carefully balance the dire need to ease pressure on the national electricity grid, with an increased demand for skilled resources to complete, run and maintain emergency and alternative generation capacity projects, labour brokers can be instrumental.