With winter fast approaching and electricity demand expected to peak‚ the Gupta coal deals have come back to haunt Eskom once again‚ says energy activist Ted Blom.
Blom warns that Eskom has less than ten days to implement drastic corrective measures or South Africa will face another blackout‚ which SA struggled with in 2008.
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The objections to Eskom’s efforts to claw back almost R67-billion in revenue began in earnest this week as the first round of public hearings into the matter got underway.
But this is not the end of attempts by the power utility to recover money it believes it is owed.
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Parliament’s Energy Committee says it’s concerned by reports of Eskom battling with low coal supply at six of its power stations.
It wants the power utility’s top brass to appear before the committee as soon as possible to clarify the severity of the situation.
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Embattled minister in the presidency for women Bathabile Dlamini and Sassa acting CEO Pearl Bhengu have been given until Monday to explain why they should not foot the bill for the CPS contract extension.
Last month, the Constitutional Court gave Dlamini and Bhengu until Monday to explain, via affidavits, why they shouldn’t be held personally liable to foot the bill for the extension of the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract to continue distributing social grants.
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The South African Federation of Trade Unions will celebrate its one-year anniversary by “making South African ungovernable” unless the state scraps the national minimum wage in its current format and introduces fair labour laws.
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Johannesburg – Former finance minister Trevor Manuel on Thursday, said he was a witness and not a suspect in the case against three former senior South African Revenue Services (Sars) officials facing charges of corruption and contravention of the Rica Act.
“I confirm that I had indeed provided the prosecution with a statement last year, under compunction of a subpoena issued in terms of section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) has today laid criminal charges against ANC Secretary General and former Free State Premier, Ace Magashule, following allegations that he meddled in a housing project in the Free State to ensure that a company allegedly linked to his daughter secured a lucrative contract worth R150 million.
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ANC politicians that once ruled the City of Johannesburg have to count among the greatest illusionists of modern times.
This is because they successfully managed to fool millions of residents in the city into believing that, despite clear evidence witnessed daily of below par service delivery, the ANC in Johannesburg was somehow better than their counterparts around the country.
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Over 5.4 million beneficiaries who collect their social grants at ATMs and shops using their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) cards will for the next three months incur a R10 “banking fee”.
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The cash-strapped city of Umhlathuze on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast is spending an estimated R20-million on a mansion for its mayor‚ Mduduzi Gift Mhlongo.
The president is attending an AU summit and wants the continent to rid itself of a ‘colonial mentality’.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday strongly punted the idea of creating a single homogeneous currency for African countries in a bid to attract infrastructure investment and enable ease of intra-African trade.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s blistering letter suspending South African Revenue Service (SARS) boss Tom Moyane showed an attempt by the state to salvage the integrity of the key institution that has been plagued by poor governance.
While graft scandals engulfed the public service, SARS had over the last decade emerged as the last bulwark against corruption, as it maintained a reputation of efficiency and impartiality
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The company that received the Guptas’ Sars VAT payout is closely connected to a company whose R2.2-billion contract with Sars was cancelled in 2016 because one of its shareholders was now suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane’s nephew.
In 2016, Moyane’s nephew Nhlamulo Ndhlela was found to have scored a debt collection contract from Sars worth R220-million.
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Robert Mugabe is reportedly pleading poverty, claiming that he had to declare all his assets outside the country, reports Times Live.
This comes after the former Zimbabwe president was summoned to return funds that were sent out of the country illegally.
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