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Eskom warns of more blackouts in winter; stage 3 power cuts set for Thursday
There's no end in sight to the nation's overall power crisis with the utility warning supply will be constrained for the foreseeable future.
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ANALYSIS: What Africa Check found down the White Spiritual Boy Trust rabbit hole
Charges were laid at a Johannesburg police station in April, accusing President Cyril Ramaphosa of serious crimes from racketeering and high treason to theft and murder. Africa Check sifted through the 200-page affidavit and consulted experts to make sense of this strange tale.
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DPE: SAA’s BRP success depends on financial health of subsidiaries
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on Wednesday briefed Parliament’s select committees on appropriations and public enterprises on how R2.7 billion will be spent on the subsidiaries.
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Eskom ramps up load shedding to stage 4 for Wednesday
Eskom has confirmed that it will implement stage four load shedding from 2pm on Wednesday until 10pm in the evening after which it would revert to stage two cuts.
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Volkswagen says charged in France over 'dieselgate' scandal
In a statement a day after French rival Renault announced it had also been charged in the inquiry, VW denied causing any "harm" to French consumers, though a source close to the inquiry said it faces "deceit" charges.
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Labour Court reserves judgment in Untu wage dispute with Prasa
The United National Transport Union (Untu) brought an urgent application to force the rail agency to adhere to a collective agreement and pay this year's 5% wage increase.
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El Salvador approves law to make bitcoin legal tender
"The #BitcoinLaw has just been approved by a qualified majority" in the legislative assembly, President Nayib Bukele tweeted after the vote late Tuesday.
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Renault charged with 'deceit' in diesel emissions inquiry
Fraud investigators accused Renault of 'fraudulent strategies' used by top managers for over 25 years to falsify the emission test results, including its longtime chief Carlos Ghosn.
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Global tax still far from becoming reality
After the accolades, an agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to set a global minimum tax on the biggest companies now faces a long, bumpy road to implementation.
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Cosatu urges Sarb to lower repo rate to help struggling consumers, businesses
Cosatu wants the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) to further lower the repo rate by 50 basis points when its monetary policy committee next meets, and for commercial banks to “come to the party” in helping make credit affordable.
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Stage 2 load shedding to start today and run to Sunday night, says Eskom
In a statement released on Wednesday morning, the utility said that the rolling power cuts were due to delays in returning generation units to service at Kusile, Tutuka, Duvha, Kendal and Koeberg power stations.
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Cosatu: Poor economic growth a reflection of govt, businesses’ slow pace
Stats SA announced today that South Africa’s economy grew by just 1.1% in the first three months of this year.
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Eskom to switch off your electricity from 5 pm to 10 pm tonight
Earlier, the utility said it had hoped not to, but rolling blackouts will resume nationwide within the hour.
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AT A GLANCE: SA's latest quarterly GDP data
Stats SA on Tuesday released the latest gross domestic product (GDP) figures, which showed that the economy grew by 1.1% in the first three months of this year.
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SA economy grew by 1.1% in Q1 of 2021 - Stats SA
Stats SA said that the finance, mining and trade sectors were the main drivers on the production side of the economy, while household spending and changes in inventories helped spur growth on the demand side.
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Mbalula praises RAF task team after fund records first surplus in 40 years
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that they managed to reduce those costs by a whopping R7 billion and their finance costs had also declined by more than 60%.
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Mbalula hails interventions at RAF as a resounding success
The fund has been bleeding money for years, as it struggled to keep up with an increase in road accident claims both legitimate and fraudulent.
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France fines Google 220m euros over online ad dominance
The penalty is part of a settlement reached after three media groups - News Corp, French daily Le Figaro and Belgium's Groupe Rossel - accused Google of effectively having a monopoly over online ad sales.
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Municipal workers' wage negotiations nearing collapse - Samwu
Workers are demanding a R2,500 or 7% salary increase with other benefits. However, the employer is offering 2.8%.
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DA says Eskom power cuts a deadly threat to people dependent on oxygen machines
The Democratic Alliance (DA) claimed that it had received numerous reports of medical facilities and home-based patients who did not have backup electricity to keep their oxygen machines running when the lights go off.
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Top SA wines for sale at online auction after COVID booze sales ban hits exports
There are about 12,000 cases of wine from estates that were traditionally reserved for the export market.
