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Even as South Africa grapples with rolling blackouts, the president says there has been progress made in electricity generation by mining and other sectors

Steve Jobs famously said that one can only connect the dots backwards. We connect the dots on government’s economic policy since 2018. The dots tell us what has been done, not what will be done nor what has been promised. They help us to distinguish between daily headlines and longer-term trends. (I apologise in advance that this read is longer than usual – there are just too many dots!) Supportive macro-economic framework

Eskom insists that it is processing budget quotes for independent power producers (IPPs) seeking to connect to the national grid, in line with agreed timelines, and that it is making every effort to debottleneck the process so that much-needed new generation capacity can be introduced speedily. COO Jan Oberholzer indicated during a load-shedding briefing that the utility was seeking clarity from both the IPP Office and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy regarding recent statements in...

The load shedding we are experiencing is the result of policy missteps and the impact of state capture over many years, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, writes Cyril Ramaphosa.

President Ramaphosa hopeful for Eskoms future.

The energy landscape is being transformed, the problems at Eskom are steadily being addressed and substantial new energy generation capacity is being built, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.

South African Energy Forum (SAEF) notes with grave concern the timeous evasion of responsibility and accountability of the Board of Eskom to account to SCOPA Oversight ever since this Board was put in place in year 2018. This Board was given a mandate to rescue Eskom from the financial losses abyss as there had been no loadshedding in the preceding three years before this Eskom Board was appointed. 1. Year 2019: It was Former Eskom Board Member Ms Nelisiwe Magubane in 2019 SCOPA Eskom Oversight ...

The lights may stay on undisrupted for a few days or even several weeks, but the reality is that rolling power outages are red-flagged all the way to April 2023 — and quite possibly longer.

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Stage 4 load shedding continues, but Eskom expects more of its units to return to service as the week progresses.