Eskom has agreed to take its 0% wage offer off the table and return to the negotiation table with labour unions in an effort to end protest action, which has disrupted electricity supply. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan convened a...
Eskom began with Stage 1 load shedding on Friday morning and according to the utility the power cuts are expected to continue until 9pm tonight. The utility says the power cuts are due to the impact of the current illegal protest action by some its...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has called on all parties involved in the Eskom wage dispute to allow time for the negotiations to succeed. Gordhan noted that a continuous supply of electricity was in everyone’s best interest and urged...
South African energy regulator NERSA on Thursday gave power utility Eskom the go-head to recover R32.69 billion rand of costs incurred over the past three years through higher tariffs, about half what the utility had requested. Cash-strapped Eskom,...
Power utility Eskom says generation and distribution of electricity across its network is constrained due to acts of sabotage and intimidation that characterise the current industrial action by members of trade unions. According to the utility...
Power utility Eskom has laid load shedding rumours to rest after messages circulating on social media suggested there would be power cuts this week as a result of impending strike action. In a statement released on Tuesday the utility said that...
Negotiations between Eskom and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) ground to a halt on Thursday after the union staged a walkout. EWN on Friday reported that the union, which accused the power utility of a hostile attitude towards workers,...
Eskom has announced that it is now giving new and existing businesses the option to self-build an electricity connection to the national power grid with the help of Eskom-approved contractors, service providers and suppliers. This comes after huge...
Power utility Eskom says it wants to use lessons learnt from the construction of its two mega power stations, Medupi and Kusile, to drive the country’s nuclear build programme. Speaking at the African Utility Week Conference in Cape Town on...
