Port Elizabeth’s National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) rescued 76 people and a dog early on Sunday. The alert that the people, who were attending a religious meeting, were stranded upstream of the Swartkops River, cut off from the mainland by...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has noted Standard and Poor’s (S&P) decision to downgrade South Africa’s long term foreign currency credit rating to BBB from BBB+ and the long term local currency credit rating to A- from A. S&P...
POWER utility Eskom has asked the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to increase electricity tariffs for the next five years by an average 16% a year. Over the next five years, electricity prices will, therefore, more than double...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) might provide 2 500 megawatts of power to South Africa, Botswana and Namibia under a revised plan to build the Inga III hydropower plant, an official said. The government would host a meeting next month to...
