News | Infrastructure news - Part 731

News

Medupi Power Station maintenance image

Maintaining standards at Medupi

The maintenance and management of a water treatment plant at Medupi Power Station is important for the operation of the power station as it processes harmful water produced during power generation –ensuring that it is reusable. The water treatment...
Nicky Newton King image

Selling South Africa’s future

Our future is not literally in our hands. This somewhat alarming news can be allayed, to some degree, with the good news that our future is being sold to investors, hopefully of good reputation, by a group of upstanding South African public and...
Andrew Etzinger image

A R24 million mistake: Who is paying?

Poor Eskom. For every step it takes forward – it cha-chas and sashays 10 backwards. The power utility says the right things, albeit not always at the right time, but seldom does the right things in the larger landscape of South Africa’s energy...
Tina Joemat-Pettersson

Agreement is “new” but not “clear”

Following the signing of an Inter-Governmental Framework Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation yesterday between South Africa and France the stage has officially been set for a collision of lofty ambitions and financial pragmatism. This, along with the...