AVAILABILITY of electricity in South Africa is now at its worst in living memory. Prices are skyrocketing, tariffs are set to increase by a whopping 18.65% and the ruling party is hamstrung by its inability to unbundle Eskom into separate units. This at the same time as government insists on main...

IN A PIECE published in the Daily Maverick, Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan appears to respond to an earlier piece written by myself and published here and in the Cape Argus. The example of Telkom deregulation which I have raised, on more than one occasion, is most certainly taken ver...

SO LONG as this country myopically persists with it's strange obsession in maintaining the Eskom energy monopoly, there will be load-shedding and blackouts. Consumers desperately require choices in energy provider, options on who can connect their home grid, to power the toaster and microwave ove...

Isotope main suspect behind 2010 Cobalt-58 scare Plant should be decommissioned says Koeberg Alert There is no known threshold beyond which radiation is considered safe INFORMATION released by environmental organisation Koeberg Alert Alliance (KAA), point to ongoing reactor design problems associ...

WHEN Medupi and Kusile were announced by our government in 2004 and 2007 respectively, the two coal-fired mega-projects were both seen as emblematic of South Africa's democratic progress —  key to the ruling alliance and its plans for the future. The ruling labour-left coalition was at the height...