The Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, probably has sleepless nights and a lot of nightmares over her own report condemning Pravin Gordhan. If the court case from Pravin Gordhan instigates to honor his name after the OB has accused him of unlawful conduct in her report, it could mean the end of her career. She has..
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Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s Nightmare – Position as Public Protector at Risk Due to Deceptive Reports
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Ramaphosa’s cabinet announcement only later this week, a smart step to insure he doesn’t walk in the footsteps of former corrupt president Zuma
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The ANC’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, decided to announce his cabinet only later this week, is seen as a clever move to make sure he does not follow in the same footsteps like Zuma. With the Vice-President’s request to be inaugurated only later, Ramaphosa is satisfied, because if the so-called Integrity Committee finds Mabuza “innocent,” he..
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The DA’s Natasha Mazzone is highly suspicious of how much money is being spent on emergency diesel at Eskom, urging President Ramaphosa to “come clean”.
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The Shadow Public Enterprises Minister Natasha Mazzone has grilled Cyril Ramaphosa just hours before the polls open for the 2019 Elections. The DA MP – best known for her firebrand speeches in Parliament – wants the president to disclose more information on the deals to procure “emergency diesel supplies” for Eskom. It’s understood that the..
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China is holding the ‘switch’ in it’s hand, doing business with them is dangerous, with another Eskom crisis, China withheld the R7bn loan, they already own one Eskom plant, Load-shedding highly possible
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Well, this doesn’t look too clever. It’s reported that Eskom will be R7bn lighter this month, after its Chinese lenders raised their concerns. South Africa could be set for another round of drama from Eskom, as the ailing power utility has reportedly failed to receive R7 billion in loan payments initially set to come from..
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Do you think that Pravin Gordhan has the Eskom case under control, well think again, report suggests that load shedding is about to get much worse in SA
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As Eskom’s old units go offline and the cost to replace generational capacity soars, the severity of load shedding may well increase over the next decade. If we think we’ve had it bad with load shedding this year, we should brace ourselves for the decade ahead. That’s the message coming from Bloomberg on Monday after..
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Ted Blom vs. Eskom vs. Pravin Gordhan:- Here’s how Eskom plan to get rid of load shedding this winter, or is all of this just a ‘little white lie’
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Is this mission impossible, or can the problems at Eskom be fixed during the winter? Here’s how the power giants plan to banish load shedding for good. Pravin Gordhan has sniffed an opportunity to get Eskom back on the right track. At a media briefing on Wednesday, he cut a different figure from the man..
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Gordhan hires “specialists” to investigate unplanned rolling blackouts at Eskom’s, however the problems are largely due to inexperienced staff not having the ability to do the work according to requirements
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Gordhan hires 11 “specialists” to tend to Eskom’s problem, however the unplanned rolling blackouts is largely due to inexperienced staff in-service, and lacking the ability to do the work according to requirements. Minister Pravin Gordhan has appointed eleven industry specialists as the “Eskom Technical Review Team”. The coordinator is Dr Tsakani Mthombeni, chair of the..
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Numsa wants Gordhan’s head over extraordinarily high escalation costs at new failed power stations – according to Gordhan, power stations are “poorly designed and poorly erected”
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Trade union Numsa demanded that the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, be dismissed for the extraordinarily high escalation costs at the Medupi and Kusile power stations. The construction cost has doubled to almost R292 billion and both power stations are described as “poorly designed and poorly constructed” by Gordhan. Earlier, it was confirmed that..
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To start the new year ESKOM appointed new senior management staff, but is the load-shedding holiday over?
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Eskom intensified its plant maintenance and fast-tracked the recovery of stock levels from December 13 to January 13, when there was a low demand for electricity.
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Well Eskom, this is sooo obvious:- Load shedding invites an increase in criminal activity
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Load shedding comes with its heaps of problems, let alone an inconvenience. While South African citizens and businesses grapple with the inconvenience of load shedding, the South African Police Service (SAPS) is on high alert for an underlying threat: criminals taking advantage of power outages.
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ESKOM is in a pathetic state, now Gordhan takes control of the situation at Eskom, so senior managers need to cancel their leave
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Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Public Enterprises addressed major concerns at a media briefing on Eskom today.
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What is big-mouth Juju’s up to, he has a EFF ‘military wing’ and now the SANDF raises concerns
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The South African National Defence Force is not happy with Malema’s private army. Julius Malema, the Commander in Chief of the EFF, may have gone too far with the party’s infamous “military command structure”.
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It is almost time for the Parliament to go into recess, but here are some major changes that has been made to South African law this week
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There’s a bit of a rush to get things done before Parliament goes into recess. Here, we look at the biggest changes to South African law this week.
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DA is very ‘confident in finding success’ in challenging Malusi Gigaba and Bathabile Dlamini reappointments
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is confident it will succeed in legal challenge of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reappointment of Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and Minister in the Presidency Bathabile Dlamini.
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No surprise:- 5 reasons why the EFF doesn’t practice what it preaches
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The EFF has vehemently denied any accusations of wrongdoing on the part of the party or its deputy leader Floyd Shivambu in regards to the VBS looting saga.
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