Like in South Africa, where the simple maintenance and upkeep of a fully functioning infrastructure seems to be a challenge to African regimes, Zimbabwe who was once a powerhouse in Southern Africa, has been reduced to asking its neighbours to commission new power plants to supply Zimbabwe, as it seems it cannot even commission its own power plants anymore.
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Decolonised Zimbabwe Begging Neighbours for Electricity to Stop Daily 12 Hour Blackouts!
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E-tolls chief Coenie Vermaak says:- Pretoria to Johannesburg commute “could soon take six hours”
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The drive from Johannesburg to Pretoria is a nightmare at the best of times, but according to one executive for the much-maligned e-tolls, things could soon get much worse.
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Petrol prices news: Government will increase the fuel levy in November
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The Slate Levy increase, which will take effect on 7 November, will account for 21.92 cents per litre. While most South African motorists have escaped an increase in petrol prices in November, the government’s plan to raise the fuel levy has garnered staunch criticism.
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October fuel price outlook is a ‘major concern’ for Minister of Energy
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Increasing rand weakness against the dollar will not bode well for the fuel price in October, Minister of Energy Jeff Radebe warned on Wednesday evening.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday threw out a few rotten eggs from his Cabinet basket.
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Some of the ministers who got the chop have dark clouds hanging over their tenure, with allegations of tender fraud, rampant corruption, dodgy dealings and state capture blackening their names.
These are four of the worst ministers from Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet that South Africa probably will not miss:
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Energy minister slips up on oil plan
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Minister of Energy Mmamoloko Kubayi is backtracking on the investigation into the sale of the country’s oil reserves, say highly placed sources. But the minister has denied this outright. In May, Kubayi announced in Parliament that she would investigate the controversial sale by the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) of 10-million barrels of the country’s fuel..
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