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Sibanye-Stillwater says situation dire as it looks to restructure
Sibanye has warned that close to 6,000 miners are in danger of losing their jobs after it recorded losses worth R1 billion at its gold operations in 2018.
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Ramaphosa seeks to bring labour on board over plans to unbundle Eskom
President Ramaphosa says the government will be meeting with labour in the coming days to thrash out their concerns and he’s hoping it will be a collaborative process.
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Ramaphosa: 'Eskom will be turned around, but no silver bullet to fix its woes'
During the reply on the debate on his State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa says that the five days of consecutive load shedding the country has experienced so far underscores the magnitude of the myriad of problems the entity faces.
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Low probability of load shedding for Friday, says Eskom
Eskom says it is unlikely that it will implement load shedding today due to further improvement in generating performance and notable strides made in replenishing diesel and water reserves.
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Amazon drops New York headquarters plan amid protests
The New York neighbourhood of Long Island City had been one of two locations Amazon selected last year after a long search for a second headquarters or 'HQ2.'
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NUM ready to fight retrenchments at Sibanye-Stillwater
The company announced on Thursday that over 6,000 jobs are on the line as part of its restructuring operation.
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Cosatu to meet with Ramaphosa over Eskom unbundling plans
The trade union federation has come out strongly against government for making the decision without consulting unions.
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#RandReport: Rand tumbles as Eskom sours outlook, stocks flat
At 1510 GMT, the rand was 1.07% weaker at 14.2200 per dollar, as it breached 14.00 for the first time in five weeks. The currency has tumbled 4% this week.
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Minister Mboweni to trim deficit forecast on growth hopes
A Reuters poll taken in the past week suggests Tito Mboweni will announce a deficit target of 4.1% of gross domestic product - narrower than the 4.2% he predicted in October.
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Ramaphosa assures public govt is working to stop load shedding
President Cyril Ramaphosa said government will be working aggressively to put an end to load shedding.
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State capture inquiry to zoom in on Eskom next week
On Wednesday, the inquiry will start the first day of a three-week stretch dealing with the embattled power utility Eskom.
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Huawei to build data centres in South Africa
This forms part of the Chinese company's plans to expand cloud services across Africa.
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Sibanye-Stillwater could cut almost 6,000 jobs in gold restructuring
Gold producers in Africa’s most industrialised economy, which have some of the world’s deepest mines, have seen profits squeezed by rising costs, labour unrest and declining grades.
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Eskom bullish on ending load shedding as coal stockpile levels improve
Eskom says there has been some improvement in generation performance and that it now has more than 30 days of coal stockpiles left, despite the rain.
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SA currency breaches R14 to dollar as Eskom sours outlook
The dollar out-stripped most other currencies, supported by good inflation data and weak growth in Europe.
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Eskom defends govt decision to bring in external engineers to probe crisis
On Wednesday, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan told Parliament a panel of experts will be roped in to investigate what caused seven generating units to collapse at the weekend, leading to a blackout.
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Cosatu’s Losi: 'Eskom must account for poor maintenance at power stations'
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi said the federation will be seeking answers from the executive at Eskom, particularly about how it suddenly cannot justify load shedding.
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Halt operations at Kusile, Medupi, maintain existing stations, say economists
Eskom is faced with aging infrastructure at most of its stations and has been struggling to complete construction at Kusile and Medupi.
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Cosatu calls for govt, Eskom to suspend IPP contract
These demands formed part of their memorandum handed over to Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe at the nationwide mass action on Wednesday.
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Eskom shares the love with stage 2 load shedding for Thursday
The power cuts will be implemented for a fifth consecutive day as the electricity provider battles to keep its generators online.
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Nugent: 'Leave Sars out of political battles'
Retired Judge Robert Nugent was briefing MPs on the findings and recommendations of the commission of inquiry he headed up to look into administration and governance at the revenue collector.
