President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a set of new emergency measures to deal with South Africa’s current electricity crisis. During his address on Monday night, Ramaphosa compared the energy crisis to the battle against Covid-19, and urged South...
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has announced initiatives for further streamlining the environmental assessment process for renewable energy projects in South Africa. The announcement was made during a virtual...
South Africans are all too aware of the ongoing electricity supply issues facing the country. The deteriorating electrical generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure is cause for significant concern. By Frikkie Malan, head of...
On the face of it, the power sector in Africa seems to be in trouble. Reports of outages and cable theft and general tales of woe abound on any newspaper page, creating the impression that the ‘dark continent’ is in fact an appropriate moniker....
