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Africa’s proposed new financial institutions risk being Potemkin villages
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 23rd February 2024 The African Union (AU) has launched a drive to establish its own panoply of financial institutions to address what it regards as the failure of... →
Mashaba unveils ActionSA election posters outside symbolic Carlton Centre
By: Thabi Shomolekae 23rd February 2024 The promise of a “better life for all” that former President Nelson Mandela famously uttered at the Carlton Centre in 1994 did not become a... →
DA readying to file contempt of court action against ANC 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 23rd February 2024 The Democratic Alliance announced on Friday that it will be launching a contempt of court application against the African National Congress to... →
Mini Grid Solutions for Underserved Customers: New Insights from Nigeria and India
23rd February 2024 Traditionally, mini grids have been viewed as “off-grid” systems that are built and operated solely for communities without electricity. The... →
Eskom eschews $2.5bn of cheap loans as climate pact flounders 
By: Bloomberg 23rd February 2024 South Africa’s State power utility has failed to tap $2.5-billion of cheap loans to build critical transmission infrastructure that would help end... →
Crunch time
By: Terence Creamer 23rd February 2024 The consequences of policy failure in electricity are so obvious there is no need to ventilate them again. Not so for gas, however, given that they... →
Eskom insists downward EAF slide has been ‘arrested’ amid Stage 4 loadshedding
By: Terence Creamer 22nd February 2024 Eskom insists the performance of its unreliable generation fleet is on an improving trajectory, releasing a graphic-heavy statement on February 22... →
HSF Calls on Unregistered Voters to Make Use of the On-going Online Registration
22nd February 2024 With President Cyril Ramaphosa officially having announced the election date of 29 May 2024, there is limited time for those who are yet to... →
