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Category: South Africa

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  • South Africa

Power Cuts Drive South African Factory Activity to 14-Month Low

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

Posted On : 3 Oct 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South African power cuts grow, total blackout not imminent, utility chief says

 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

Posted On : 19 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

S.Africa’s Eskom moves to Stage 5 loadshedding until Monday morning

 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

Posted On : 17 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa Suffers 100th Day of Power Blackouts This Year

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

Posted On : 14 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa could take a year or more to end power cuts, Eskom official says

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

Posted On : 13 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

In a Power Crisis, South Africans Adjust to Life in the Dark

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

Posted On : 10 Sep 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Widening Protests May Worsen South Africa Power Cuts, Eskom Says

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

Posted On : 24 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Europe imports more South African coal as Russian ban looms

 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

Posted On : 15 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Eskom to Cut 2,000MW From S. Africa Grid Every Evening This Week

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

Posted On : 22 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electricity
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Eskom to resume daily rolling power cuts

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

Posted On : 15 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Manufacturers’ Mood Darkens After Deadly South African Floods

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

Posted On : 3 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • South Africa

Covid-19 Live Updates: Beijing News and More

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

Posted On : 2 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Heaviest Downpour in Six Decades Shuts Key South African Port

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

Posted On : 14 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Coal
  • South Africa

Europe Turns To South Africa For Coal As It Shuns Russia

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

Posted On : 5 Mar 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Shell Ordered to Temporarily Halt Seismic Survey in South Africa

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

Posted On : 30 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Africa: Major Victory for Wild Coast Communities – Shell Interdicted From Conducting Seismic Operations With Immediate Effect

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

Posted On : 29 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Namibia

The World Wants Green Hydrogen. Namibia Says It Can Deliver

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

Posted On : 18 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

S.Africans protest against Shell oil exploration in pristine coastal area

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

Posted On : 6 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Shell wins court case to start seismic surveys offshore South Africa

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

Posted On : 3 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Eskom CEO sees end to crisis in shift from coal

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

Posted On : 1 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South African scientists brace for wave propelled by omicron

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

Posted On : 27 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

New Variant Puts South Africa at Risk of Global Shut Out

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

Posted On : 26 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Virus-Spurred Pariah Status Takes a Toll on Rand

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

Posted On : 26 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Botswana

India’s Jindal plans to start building Botswana coal mine in 2022

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

Posted On : 20 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa Can’t Afford to Quit Coal. Will Rich Countries Pay for the Transition? – WSJ

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

Posted On : 12 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Energy Minister Vows To Fight For Coal

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

Posted On : 10 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Botswana

Work set to start on Botswana coal mine in 2022 despite pressure

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

Posted On : 5 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

The debt-laden, state-owned utility can’t get rid of coal without international help

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

Posted On : 1 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

S.Africa’s banks say they can’t cut off funding for coal just yet

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

Posted On : 15 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Rich Nations Head to South Africa Seeking Coal Exit Deal

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

Posted On : 16 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

New Coal Power Stations Cut Off From Funding by FirstRand

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

Posted On : 16 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa: SA On the Verge of Fuel Shortages?

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

Posted On : 15 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • South Africa

S. African Excess Deaths at Six-Month High as Delta Spreads

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

Posted On : 8 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Hospitals in South Africa Hub Face Being Overrun by Covid Surge

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

Posted On : 26 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Large Methane Leak Detected Over South Africa Coal Mining Region

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

Posted On : 18 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Emergency LNG-To-Power Deals Land In Hot Water

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

Posted On : 11 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa Hopes To Become The Next Big Shale Success Story

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

Posted On : 16 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • South Africa

More Than 50% of South Africans May Have Had Covid, Insurer Discovery Says – Bloomberg

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

Posted On : 17 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Coal
  • South Africa

Upheaval Is Coming to South Africa Over the Shift Away From Coal

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

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • South Africa

South Africa halts AstraZeneca vaccinations over variant data

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

Posted On : 8 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa’s Faces Major Oil Refinery Crisis

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

Posted On : 13 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Almost Half of South Africa’s Oil Refining Seen Shut Until 2022

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

Posted On : 11 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Bids Listed to Plug South Africa’s Power Generation Shortage

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

Posted On : 25 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Blast-rocked South African oil refinery shut down for investigations

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

Posted On : 5 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Total makes second ‘significant’ gas condensate find off South Africa

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

Posted On : 28 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

After Early Success, South Africa Buckles Under Coronavirus Surge

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

Posted On : 27 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa News: New Total Oil Rig Coming for Wildcat Drilling –

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

Posted On : 4 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

South Africa scientists say up to 50,000 COVID-19 deaths possible

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

Posted On : 22 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

Price War Hits Africa’s Largest Oil Producer

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

Posted On : 28 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Africa

A Perfect COVID-19 Storm Closes in on South Africa

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

Posted On : 27 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple

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