Mandy de Villiers wakes up each day dreading the possibility of finding her 83-year-old mother dead from starvation — forced to choose between buying food or paying her electricity bill, which has skyrocketed to more than R3,000 since the…
While residents consider legal action against the electricity increases, businesses are feeling the pinch, with their charges shooting up from R2,500 to approximately R46,000. From August 1, the electricity basic charges have increased to…
A report to be tabled at the BCM council today details millions the metro is spending on repairing stolen and vandalised electrical infrastructure in the city. The report indicates that from the R29m energy and electricity department…
Back in 2019, the GO! & Express reported on a large number of illegal electricity connections that had sprung up in Stoney Drift. One year later, it seems that little has changed. “I’ve been staying here for the past five or six years,…
By LISA STEYN The theme of the 26th Investing in African Mining Indaba is “optimising growth and investment in the digitised mining economy”, but on Monday, as the conference started, the words on everyone’s lips were load-shedding. As…
There is a “high likelihood” of loadshedding on Wednesday night, Eskom said, after enforced power cuts overnight. Electricity was restored at 6am after stage 2 load-shedding was imposed from 1am. Stage 2 loadshedding is anticipated again…
Embattled power utility Eskom says load-shedding is unlikely on Friday but the country’s power supply is still constrained. The power utility implemented stage 2 rolling blackouts overnight on Thursday due to power generation units being…
Eastern Cape teachers were forced to print exam papers at home and pupils wrote tests in cold, dark classrooms due to unpaid electricity bills. More than 10 schools in the Alfred Nzo municipality have been operating without power for…
In what is sure to be a devastating double- whammy for many, the cost of electricity and fuel were hiked up dramatically within days of each one another. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) recently approved Eskom’s…
The senior citizens of eZizeni eNkosini in Tshatshu Village near Zwelitsha Township are frustrated at having to live without electricity for the last 15 years. More than 150 families are currently living in the area. “We arrived in this…
Eskom said on Friday that it did not anticipate load-shedding for the “most part” of the day after being forced to cut power to parts of the country for two hours on Thursday evening. The parastatal commenced with stage 1 load-shedding on…
Eskom wants consumers to cough up more for electricity‚ but a lobby group has raised questions about how the power utility has spent hundreds of billions in funding. Eskom is seeking a 20% tariff increase from the National Energy…
Urbanisation and electricity in the home are not to blame for sleep loss‚ according to a study. Researchers from the University of Surrey‚ in collaboration with groups in South Africa‚ Brazil‚ Colombia and the USA‚ examined the sleeping…
Sixty-three people in informal settlements have been killed by illegal electricity connections in the Buffalo City (BCM) Metro in the past three years. The most recent case was in Mzamomhle on Wednesday when a 25-year-old man allegedly…
“Electricity off in Gonubie and surrounding areas. Technicians on site”-Buffalo City Metro.
