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Old Mutual says South African consumers are helping the economy turn a corner after one of the world's strictest lockdowns.

Eskom could easily plunge SA into darkness, through human error and constant loadshedding. A national blackout takes weeks to restore.

Ted Blom warns that Eskom is understating the country's electricity shortfall and that South Africans should brace for disaster.

Helen Zille recently spoke to Biznews founder Alec Hogg about her book #Stay woke: Go broke.  Zille writes about the unique dangers of wokeness and cancel culture in South Africa, her battle with cancel culture and what she sees in the country’s political future. In unapologetic terms, Zille unpacks South Africa’s immense challenges and offers her opinions on how voters can exercise their power to change the country’s future. “I could never have imagined in a million years that the underlying philosophy of apartheid would suddenly become progressive and be paraded around by young peo...

Emergency power programme sees accusations of graft When the South African government announced the eight preferred bidders in the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement (RMIPPP) programme, local experts openly questioned the tender allocation. Eight bidders will provide an additional 1,845 megawatts, generated by various technologies. The project equates to R45bn of private-sector investment. The bidders are; ACWA Power Projects DAO, Oya Energy, Umoyilanga, and two projects for Mulilo Total and three for Karpowership SA. They use technologies including solar, photovoltai...