Purchasing managers’ index fell to 48.2 in September from 52.1 Index tracking expected business conditions suggests more pain Employees work at a sewing machine, powered by a generator, during a Continue Reading
South African power utility Eskom implemented Stage 6 power cuts early on Sunday morning, its worst level touched for the second time this year although a “total blackout” was not Continue Reading
South African power utility Eskom said power outages will be ratcheted up a notch to ‘Stage 5’ from 1000 a.m. (0800 GMT) local on Saturday until 0500 a.m. on Monday Continue Reading
South Africa’s state-owned power utility has implemented power cuts on 100 days in 2022, with more to come. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. ramped up outages to so-called stage-4 load shedding, Continue Reading
South African government plans to end recurring power cuts could take at least a year to deliver results, a top executive at struggling utility Eskom said on Monday. Africa’s most Continue Reading
Blackouts, long a problem in South Africa, reached a new level of crisis in recent months, affecting every facet of life. South Africans call it “loadshedding.” The state-owned power supplier, Continue Reading
High voltage electricity transmission pylons alongside the Eskom plant in South Africa. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said it may increase power cuts in South Africa as workers escalate protests over Continue Reading
European countries, scrambling to secure alternatives to Russian coal, imported 40% more coal from South Africa’s main export hub in the first five months of this year than over the Continue Reading
South Africa’s state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will continue staging rolling blackouts during the coming week due to a shortage of generation capacity. The utility, responsible for almost Continue Reading
South African state power utility Eskom said on Saturday that it would resume power cuts from 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) to 10 p.m. due to loss of some generation capacity. Continue Reading
A gauge measuring South African manufacturing sentiment dropped the most in nine months in April after the worst flooding in almost three decades left more than 400 people dead, damaged Continue Reading
Coronavirus cases are surging again in South Africa, and public health experts are monitoring the situation, eager to know what’s driving the spike, what it says about immunity from previous Continue Reading
South Africa suspended shipping at its main port in Durban after the heaviest rains in more than six decades and resultant flooding damaged roads leading to the harbor. Operations at Continue Reading
European buyers are scouring the world as far as South Africa to procure coal as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the threat of more sanctions on Moscow have made Russian Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been ordered by a South African court to temporarily halt an offshore seismic survey after local communities took legal action to block the project. The Continue Reading
Today the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda ordered Shell to immediately cease its seismic blasting along South Africa’s Wild Coast, while ordering Shell and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Continue Reading
This old diamond-mining town, perched on the rocky Atlantic coastline of this sparsely populated desert nation, last boomed at the start of the 20th century, when diamonds were discovered in the Continue Reading
South Africans took to their beaches on Sunday to protest against plans by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) to do seismic oil exploration they say will threaten marine wildlife such as Continue Reading
A South African high court on Friday struck down an urgent application brought by environmentalists to stop oil major Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) from starting seismic surveys to explore petroleum Continue Reading
South African state power utility Eskom sees an opportunity to emerge from years of crisis by shifting from coal-fired power generation towards natural gas and renewables, its chief executive told Continue Reading
As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to Continue Reading
South Africa’s recovery from its deepest economic contraction in almost three decades risks being derailed by the identification of a new coronavirus variant that prompted several European nations to ban Continue Reading
The identification of a fresh Covid-19 strain in South Africa could not have come at a worse time for the rand. Already reeling from concerns about Federal Reserve policy and Continue Reading
India’s Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) (JNSP.NS) will start building a coal mine in Botswana’s southeastern Mmamabula coalfields in 2022, aiming to supply the export market and a planned Continue Reading
The gleaming new chimneys and hulking generators of what will soon be the second-largest coal-fired power plant in the Southern Hemisphere are at the center of South Africa’s $20 billion, Continue Reading
Coal-fired power generation should continue to be part of South Africa’s energy mix, its Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday, noting that he would go to court if necessary Continue Reading
Work is due to begin on Botswana’s second privately-owned coal mine in the first quarter of next year, the CEO of Maatla Resources told Reuters, despite calls to abandon coal. Continue Reading
With the approach of the COP26 climate summit, South Africa is negotiating with a handful of wealthy nations about how to overhaul its ailing electricity sector in what could become Continue Reading
South African banks say they have to keep funding at least some coal projects for now because an immediate halt would put huge political and economic strains on a nation Continue Reading
Four of the world’s richest nations will send a delegation to South Africa as soon as next week to seek a deal to begin closing the country’s coal-fired plants, according Continue Reading
FirstRand Ltd. , Africa’s biggest bank by market value, is ending its funding of new coal-fired power stations immediately and will halt the financing of new projects to mine the Continue Reading
The announcement by SAPREF, South Africa’s largest fuel refinery, that it has suspended its operations due to force majeure, will undoubtedly impact the already critical fuel situation in South Africa, Continue Reading
Why No Country Is Safe From the Delta Variant Excess deaths, seen as a more precise way of measuring total fatalities from the coronavirus, rose to their highest level since Continue Reading
Hospital capacity in South Africa’s industrial hub of Gauteng is at risk of being breached by surging Covid-19 cases within days. The densely populated province, which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, Continue Reading
A cloud of methane was detected by satellite near coal mines in South Africa, drawing attention to a lesser-known environmental risk that comes from using the dirtiest fossil fuel. The Continue Reading
The plan of South Africa’s government to lease LNG-to-power ships to solve its electricity crisis has drawn a lot of criticism because of alleged irregularities in the bidding process and Continue Reading
It’s been nearly a decade since South Africa lifted a freeze on shale gas exploration, but the resource-rich nation’s potential ensuing shale revolution never quite materialized. Much attention and expectations Continue Reading
More than half of South Africans are likely to have been infected with Covid-19, the chief executive officer of the country’s biggest health insurer said. While about 48,000 deaths have been Continue Reading
The Komati Power Station, due to be decommissioned in the next two years. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg A photograph in the entrance hall at Komati Power Station shows the plant in Continue Reading
South Africa will suspend use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot in its vaccination programme after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild to moderate infection caused by the country’s dominant Continue Reading
Two of South Africa’s four oil refineries are currently offline and expected to restart next year at the earliest, while the other two facilities also face an uncertain future as Continue Reading
South African plants owned by Glencore Plc and Petroliam Nasional Bhd that make up 43% of the nation’s oil-refining capacity are expected to stay shut until at least 2022, according to energy consultant Continue Reading
South Africa’s program to narrow a shortage of as much as 3,000 megawatts of electricity generation has drawn interest from solar, gas and powership developers. Richards Bay Gas Power 2, Scatec Continue Reading
South Africa’s second-largest crude oil refinery, the Engen plant in Durban, has been shut down to allow investigators a chance to find out the cause of a “fire incident” earlier Continue Reading
Total and its partners have made a “significant” gas condensate discovery near the major Brulpadda find off South Africa’s Western Cape raising the prospects of a new gas push in Continue Reading
Lauded in the early stages of the pandemic for taking decisive steps to limit Covid-19 infections, South Africa is now battling one of the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus outbreaks that is Continue Reading
Total SA has deployed a rig to South Africa to look for more oil near a massive discovery, in a rare example of exploration in a frontier area. The Odfjell Deepsea Continue Reading
South Africa could see up to 50,000 coronavirus deaths and as many as 3 million infections by the end of the year as the southern hemisphere winter leads to a Continue Reading
Caught in the Saudi-Russian oil price war, Africa’s largest oil producer, Nigeria, has discounted deeply its crude and aims to pump as much as it can, trying to retain customers Continue Reading
With only 709 confirmed coronavirus cases as of March 25, South Africa may be lagging a few weeks behind the outbreaks now unfolding in Europe and North America. But when Continue Reading
