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Eskom's Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: Taurai Maduna/EWN

Cosatu still concerned by power tariff hike

Barry Bateman | 28/02/2013Cosatu said the poor and struggling small businesses will still have to tighten their belts.

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Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim speaks to reporters after a meeting of the trade union's central committee in Johannesburg, Thursday, 18 August 2011. Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

Numsa to fight Eskom in court

Theo Nkonki | 25/02/2013
Numsa will lodge an application against the implementation of Eskom's proposed 16% tariff hike.

Eskom CEO Brian Dames says they have entered into talks with SA’s four biggest coal producers in an effort to contain costs and its knock-on effect on the power price. Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

Eskom’s infrastructure is ‘aged’

Barry Bateman | 02/02/2013
Eskom says cutting its maintenance budget is out of the question.

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Eskom's Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: Taurai Maduna/EWN

Cosatu still concerned by power tariff hike

28/02/2013

Cosatu said the poor and struggling small businesses will still have to tighten their belts.

Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim speaks to reporters after a meeting of the trade union's central committee in Johannesburg, Thursday, 18 August 2011. Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

Numsa to fight Eskom in court

25/02/2013

Numsa will lodge an application against the implementation of Eskom's proposed 16% tariff hike.

Eskom CEO Brian Dames says they have entered into talks with SA’s four biggest coal producers in an effort to contain costs and its knock-on effect on the power price. Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

Eskom’s infrastructure is ‘aged’

02/02/2013

Eskom says cutting its maintenance budget is out of the question.

An activist is seen protesting at the Nersa hearings into Eskom's proposed new electricity tariff structure in Cape Town on 15 January 2013. Picture: Nardus Engelbrecht/SAPA

Eskom: Our expenses are already above CPI

02/02/2013

Eskom has ruled out suggestions that it proposed an inflation-linked electricity tariff hike.

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