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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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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’

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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