SA’s Power Blackouts: Solutions Lie in Solar Farms, Battery Storage and an End to State Monopoly

Protestors take to the streets in Johannesburg, South Africa against extended power cuts. Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images David Richard Walwyn, University of Pretoria Rolling blackouts are costing South Africa (SA) dearly. The electricity crisis is a barrier to growth, destroys investor confidence and handicaps almost every economic activity. It has raised […]

Corruption in South Africa: Former CEO’s Explosive Book Exposes How State Power Utility Was Destroyed

Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter. PenguinRandomHouse Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s troubled power utility, Eskom, is that “negligence and carelessness had become cemented into the organisation”.

Farmers in South Africa Face Power Cuts and a Weak Rand – but a Number of Factors Are Working in Their Favour Too

All of South Africa’s wheat production takes place during the winter months. GettyImages Wandile Sihlobo, Stellenbosch University Winter is an important season for South African agriculture, with some of its key field crops being produced during the cold months of June, July and August, and maturing after that, with harvesting in December.