Besides the horror of missing the Ellen DeGeneres show at primetime, the rolling blackouts across Mzanzi have had disastrous effects on business and employment.
Terrified workers, top management fighting about who needs to go and political interference has brought all decision-making processes at Eskom to a standstill.
So it would seem as if the dilemma we find ourselves in right now isn’t all Eskom’s fault, three guesses as to who’s actually to blame.
Oh and the City aint the first to start looking for alternatives to Eskom. Fellow parastatal, Transnet, has also extended invitations to energy providers that are more… reliable than Eskom.
Finally some good news: One of Medupi Power Station’s units and a solar power plant in Pofadder are helping address the energy crisis in South Africa, so that load shedding can be reduced
Ciggies, whiskey, wine and most importantly petrol is going back up folks. Oh and even though there’s not enough to go around, you’ll be paying more for electricity too.
For the first time in almost 20 years South Africans will be coughing up a bigger chunk of their salaries to the tax man…
Elon Musk, the real Tony Stark and one of the kiffest ouns around has done it again. The guy behind the open source tony electric car is ready to launch yet another groundbreaking product.
Yeah, like no one saw this coming. The ruling party has been getting kickbacks from Eskom tenders for quite some time, while the nation is teetering on a knife’s edge. No wonder the state doesn’t want to privatise the power supplier, they’re getting so much cash from it.
Two creative South Africans have made the most of these dark times by producing load shedding sing-along tjoons. And they’re awesome…
Look, it was bound to happen, but no-one thought it would hit this soon and this hard. Eskom aint got the power and, unfortunately, without power there’s no way of getting water to the people.
Despite Namibia’s own temperamental electricity supply, the desert state is supplying us with around 200 megawatts as their hydro-electricity project runs like clockwork.
Just in case you’ve not had your fill of Eskom f*ckups, they’ve screwed up again and this time it’s a biggun.
While Britain’s councils are flicking their street lights on and off to cut costs, South Africa is being forced into darkness to avoid a national blackout. Are the British overreacting?
Will South Africa’s electricity grid collapse, plunging the country into weeks of darkness?
Eskom just can’t seem to get it right. All we can do is laugh and say: The pleasure is all ours.
With the way load shedding is going, you may be spending your Christmas by candlelight. But there are a few perks to Eskom’s failures…
Poor management and deferred maintenance operations put a halt to power generation over the weekend, leaving parts of SA in the dark. The issue here, however, is far bigger than having to buy no-name candles every so often.
The birthplace of democracy is our nation’s biggest financial hurdle, according to Eskom.
Get ready for at least a week of nationwide power-cuts, as Eskom yesterday announce that the Majuba coal power station collapsed, leaving the grid with a 3000mw shortfall.
The ANC accuses the DA of playing dirty after another billboard campaign appears across Gauteng blaming the ruling party for the current electricity shortage in South Africa
Ibhubesi gas project off the coast of Cape Town is set to boost South Africa’s gas-to-electricity generation capacity.
After nine months of stonewalling, South Africa’s embattled energy giant Eskom has come clean about allegations made in February by Greenpeace South Africa and other activist groups that the parastatal had employed an intelligence agency to spy on environmentalists
The anti-fracking cause, which has long united a broad swathe of Karoo residents, has a powerful new backer – Johann Rupert, one of the country’s richest men. But can the movement win out against the patience and deep pockets of the oil companies, a government desperate for results and local residents who see in fracking a brighter and more prosperous future?