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  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    South Africa’s state power monopoly seeks to raise prices to avoid collapse

    Fate of Eskom a priority for President Ramaphosa as power shortages roil economy

  • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
    South Africa
    Ramaphosa vows to break Eskom hold on South Africa energy

    Rolling blackouts are throttling economic growth, says president

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    Anglo American PLC
    South African miners applaud move to cut reliance on Eskom power

    Pretoria has waived rules that prevented mining groups generating electricity for their own use

  • Sunday, 19 January, 2020
    South Africa
    Calls to sack minister reveal split in South Africa’s ANC

    Party factions are pushing for Pravin Gordhan’s removal over crisis at state power utility

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
    Mining
    South Africa’s miners shut down by power cuts

    State utility Eskom removed power to stave off grid collapse

  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
    South Africa
    South Africa to impose its biggest rolling power blackouts

    Eskom will remove 6,000 megawatts of demand to avert total collapse of national grid

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2019
    David Pilling
    Vested interests are dragging South Africa down

    Cyril Ramaphosa will be loath to take on the people who helped him to the ANC presidency

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    South Africa’s Eskom makes surprise pick for new chief
  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    South African economy
    S Africa debt risks junk status after Moody’s move

    Cut signals rating agency’s concern that Ramaphosa government will fail to restart economy

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  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
    South Africa
    Eskom lawsuit draws Deloitte into South Africa woes

    Debt-ridden power monopoly sues acoountant over allegedly overpriced contracts

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    South Africa
    South Africa hit by another wave of rolling blackouts

    Power utility Eskom struggles to deal with plant breakdowns and debt crisis

  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    South African economy
    Toughest business job in South Africa up for grabs at Eskom

    New boss will have to turn round a stricken utility and handle political interference

  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2019
    South African economy
    South Africa jobless tally heaps pressure on Ramaphosa

    Unemployment surges while state-owned Eskom suffers biggest annual loss

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    South Africa unveils fresh bailout funds for power monopoly Eskom

    Further $4.2bn earmarked to rescue the electricity supplier from bankruptcy

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    Ramaphosa’s plan to speed up $16bn Eskom bailout criticised

    More radical proposals urged to tackle threat of utility’s collapse

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    South African economy
    South African economy suffers worst slump in a decade

    Ramaphosa under pressure as economic output drops sharply in first quarter

  • Friday, 19 April, 2019
    South Africa
    South Africa reveals $355m Eskom emergency bailout

    Treasury forced to prevent debt default at power monopoly after China loan delay

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    Energy sector
    S Africa presses ahead with over-budget power stations

    Plans to deal with severe outages and rising debt announced as elections loom

  • Saturday, 30 March, 2019
    South Africa
    Blackouts leave South Africa’s poor struggling for hope

    Power cuts cast a gloomy spell over the townships as the election nears

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    South Africa
    South Africans warned to expect more blackouts

    Fears grow that outages will continue into May as state utility struggles to fix old plants

  • Monday, 18 March, 2019
    South Africa
    Blackouts cause chaos across South Africa

    President apologises to nation as outages hit industry, traffic and communications

  • Sunday, 10 March, 2019
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    South Africa: Battling to keep the lights on

    Amid escalating debt and widespread blackouts, state power company Eskom could lose its century-old monopoly

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    S Africa energy regulator rules out big tariff rise

    Taxpayers still shoulder burden for salvaging Eskom despite above-inflation increase

  • Wednesday, 20 February, 2019
    African companies
    S Africa unveils $5bn bailout of state power group Eskom

    Biggest government financial rescue in country’s history comes as rolling blackouts throttle economy

  • Wednesday, 13 February, 2019
    David Pilling
    Ramaphosa struggles to shine a light on South African graft

    Eskom’s blackouts are part of a wider story of a country riddled with corruption

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