Allowing Eskom to concession its fleet of coal-fired power stations to private contractors would have been politically impossible just a few years ago. With the

There’s a desperate hope-springs-eternal kind of optimism about, that the 2024 elections will see the end of the ANC’s governing majority. It might. But the

A small but intriguing detail in South Africa’s approach to Russia’s war on Ukraine has been playing itself out in Cape Town. As preparations were

On Friday 24 February, I read that André de Ruyter, ex-CEO of Eskom, was thinking of leaving South Africa for his own safety. (There had

It was reported recently that the Department of Employment and Labour’s Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) branch has established a National Labour Inspection Task Team

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Zimbabwe and South Africa share a common destiny to electricity-supply Armageddon. Both Southern African neighbours and traditional trade partners are currently reeling from unprecedented power

State capture has not ended. Like a cancer, it has metastasised, and spread through the entire body, said outgoing Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, a

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 19th February 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of

Organisations as diverse as the liberals of the Democratic Alliance and the conservatives of AfriForum and the Inkatha Freedom Party have dedicated themselves to ‘federalism’