Eskom will implement stage 2 load shedding on Thursday between 08:00 and 22:00, the fifth consecutive day of rotational power cuts. Stage 2 load shedding allows for up to 2000 MW to be shed from the national grid. The power utility said in a statement there had been some improvement[…]
Eskom is technically insolvent and at the current trajectory it will not survive beyond April 2019. Acting DG of the department of public enterprises Thuto Shomang told MPs on Wednesday morning that Eskom’s R420bn debt burden represents 15% of the sovereign’s debt and that if the power utility defaults on[…]
Twenty-one Western Cape College of Nursing students were arrested for public violence after clashing with police officials at the Heideveld campus on Tuesday. Students’ anger resulted in blocked entrances, overturned government vehicles and the police being hurled with stones. Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) spokesperson Lauren Kansley said the[…]
Golden Arrow Bus Services are urging members of the public to come forward with any information that would assist in the arrest of those responsible for the latest bus robbery in Athlone on Saturday. The Mitchells Plain bus en route to Century City was ambushed by two robbers who pretended[…]
The Voice Of the Cape radio station (VOC) wishes to inform its listeners that a woman has been collecting money from a couple in Belville under the pretence of collecting donations for an orphanage in Paarl. Joel Booysen said he was contacted last week after the women called his dad[…]
Two people have been killed and another wounded by Metrorail trains during separate incidents in the Western Cape on Tuesday afternoon. Metrorail spokesperson Riana Scott said two young boys were struck on the tracks between Bonteheuwel and Netreg stations. “The 14-year-old boy was knocked by the train while the 12-year-old[…]
Concerns about safety at schools arose in Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Education on Tuesday where Deputy Education Minister Enver Surty suggested that school governing bodies (SGBs) should have safety committees. “There is also a need for a more personal link between police stations and schools for synergy between the two,”[…]
As SA wakes up to the threat of a massive strike against job losses, nurses affiliated to the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) said they would down tools in support of the Cosatu-led industrial action. Speaking on Tuesday, Denosa said they planned to join Cosatu to express their concerns[…]
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has slammed the governing African National Congress (ANC) for what he says was the creating of the conditions for the massive loadshedding that has hit the country. He was speaking in parliament during the debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address[…]
Eskom will continue with stage 3 load shedding on Wednesday between 08:00 and 23:00 as it continues to battle capacity shortages. The power utility said in an early morning statement that a number of generating units were still out of service due to breakdowns. It said despite some units returning[…]
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