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    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      South Africa
      Eskom chief warns South Africans to prepare for worst-ever blackouts

      Country told to expect a ‘difficult winter’ with outages that could last as long as 16 hours

      A local walks past electricity pylons during a power outage in South Africa
    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Eskom chief visits China as South Africa seeks to shore up ailing power monopoly

      Intense rolling blackouts set to worsen as electricity demand rises during winter period

      A woman uses a paraffin lamp while cooking during an electricity blackout at her home in Soweto, South Africa
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Former Eskom chief refuses to name high-level politicians linked to corruption

      André de Ruyter says he wants to avoid compromising any probe into graft at South African energy group

      André de Ruyter
    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa backtracks on Eskom state of disaster

      Government withdraws permission for utility to avoid reporting irregular spending in face of public anger

      People walking past electricity pylons
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Eskom given financial statements exemption over credit rating fears

      South Africa’s finance minister says power utility need not disclose irregular spending for three years

      Eskom’s Lethabo coal-fired power station in Vereeniging
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa GDP shrinks 1.3% after power cuts strangle economy

      State of disaster declared as rolling blackouts cost $50mn a day, says central bank

      Power cuts submerge Johannesburg in darkness
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa names new electricity minister in battle to beat power cuts

      Ramokgopa appointment comes after Eskom crisis causes outages of up to 12 hours a day

      Cyril Ramaphosa said that the new electricity minister would be given powers ‘to deal with the challenge of fragmentation of responsibility’
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa set to appoint electricity minister to tackle S Africa blackouts

      Cabinet reshuffle expected as government confronts claims of corruption at Eskom power monopoly

      A power station at Grootvle in South Africa
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

      The attempted poisoning of André de Ruyter is a dramatic example of how criminality has seeped into the country’s state

      André de Ruyter, and an Eskom coal-fired power station
    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      Eskom chief’s explosive interview exposes the ANC’s rotten core

      Rising frustration over pervasive corruption risks hurting South Africa’s ruling party at the polls

      A man places candles that he uses to light his shack during frequent power outages in South Africa
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      South Africa
      ANC launches withering attack on Eskom chief who criticised party

      André de Ruyter accuses senior politicians in ruling organisation of corruption at the utility

      André de Ruyter
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Eskom chief ousted after TV broadside against South Africa politics

      Boss of crisis-hit power company had implicated senior politicians in corruption

      André de Ruyter
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      South Africa expands public borrowing to relieve Eskom debt

      Finance minister says Pretoria will provide state power group with $14bn as rolling blackouts worsen

      Enoch Godongwana
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa declares ‘national state of disaster’ over blackouts

      President says rolling power cuts ‘an existential threat to our economy and our social fabric’

      President Cyril Ramaphosa making his state of the nation address
    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      South Africa
      South African Reserve Bank cuts forecasts after blackouts hit economy

      Rate-setters slow pace of policy tightening as growth outlook weakens

      A protest in Pretoria against electricity power cuts and tariff hikes
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      South African businesses turn to diesel and solar panels as Eskom crisis deepens

      Companies beset by blackouts lead a surge in investment in their own supplies, mostly renewables

      A shopper looks for goods during an electricity load-shedding blackout in Johannesburg
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      Assassination attempt underscores criminal hold over S Africa’s Eskom

      Alleged attempt to kill chief executive André de Ruyter shows challenges he has faced in rooting out corruption

      A man walks below Eskom’s electricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa
    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa pledges to move control of Eskom to South Africa’s energy ministry

      Plan highlights battle over power producer, whose outgoing chief suffered recent attempted poisoning

      Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Boss of South African power producer Eskom survived poisoning attempt in December

      André de Ruyter, who resigned after trying to overhaul the troubled utility, claims he was given cyanide-laced coffee

      André de Ruyter, pictured in October last year
    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      David Pilling
      Corrupt, failing Eskom is a picture of South Africa in miniature

      Without reliable power, the country cannot generate economic growth and overcome the festering legacies of apartheid

      Children read by paraffin light in Soweto. Eskom imposed at least 100 days of rolling blackouts last year
    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      South Africa
      Chief executive of South Africa’s Eskom quits as blackouts surge

      André de Ruyter to step down from struggling state monopoly amid national energy crisis

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      South Africa
      Eskom warns of lack of funds to fuel South Africa’s back-up power plants

      State electricity monopoly ‘urgently’ working with treasury to find money to buy diesel

      A woman cooks by a candlelight
    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      South Africa
      South Africa to transfer up to two-thirds of Eskom debt to government

      Finance minister says move will ensure long-term financial viability of state electricity monopoly

      South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana, pictured in Cape Town on Wednesday
    • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
      Utilities
      South Africa’s Eskom hit by nuclear woes

      Delays to refurbishment at flagship plant add to fears over supply

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      South African economy
      South Africa hopes private sector can help end Eskom power crisis

      Renewable energy procurement will be increased under plan announced by president Cyril Ramaphosa

      People working at a sewing machine powered by a generator during a power outage
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