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Mashaba insists on sourcing energy from Kelvin Power Station as a means to offset Joburg's crippling blackouts
By: News24Wire 30th April 2019 City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba intends to negotiate a contract with independent coal-fired power station Kelvin near OR Tambo... →
Masisi and Khama’s spat rocks the steady Botswana boat
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th March 2019 Will the increasingly ugly and public spat between Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor Ian Khama remain just a shoving... →
World Bank says Eskom debt restructuring should be coupled to power market reform 
By: Terence Creamer 23rd January 2019 World Bank country director Paul Noumba Um believes the South African government is moving in the “right direction” by pursuing discussions on... →
Back to the future for Eskom as it seeks to plug 1.3bn ton coal hole
By: Terence Creamer 13th December 2018 State-owned electricity producer Eskom is going back to the future as it seeks to close an estimated 1.3-billion ton coal shortfall that it... →
Lazard says ‘inflection point’ reached making new renewables cheaper than existing coal
By: Terence Creamer 9th November 2018 A new US study comparing the costs of energy from various generation technologies indicates that an “inflection point” has been reached where, in... →
SA: Lynne Brown: Address by Minister of Public Enterprises: during the State of the Nation debate, Parliament, Cape Town (18/02/2015)
19th February 2015 Let me begin from what will seem an unlikely starting point. Recently I received an unsolicited email from Mr Cammy Fernandes, a retailer from... →
Global Month of Action on Energy - AngloAmerican again targeted by civil society
4th October 2013 Earthilfe Africa Johannesburg called for this action which coincides with the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund... →
Coal 3: The Choke Point in South Africa's Energy System 
By: Saliem Fakir 3rd October 2013 You would think we would’ve learnt a lesson or two from total dependence on coal. Ninety percent of South Africa’s electricity comes from coal in... →
