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Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has left Eskom after a “special board meeting” on Wednesday night. In a statement, Eskom said it and De Ruyter had reached a “mutual agreement” about his early departure. De Ruyter had tendered his resignation in December 2022 and was scheduled to serve his notice until the …

Power utility Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 load shedding from 11:00 on Wednesday morning to 05:00 next week Monday. David McNew / Staff / Getty Power utility Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 load shedding from 11:00 on Wednesday morning to 05:00 next …

The Special Tribunal on Friday froze the bank accounts of a senior Eskom manager over R11m in alleged kickbacks which had been paid to him. File photo. Image: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham The Special Tribunal on Friday froze the bank accounts of a senior Eskom manager over millions in alleged kickbacks. The Special …

Eskom said it would suspend load-shedding between 10am and 2pm on Thursday to allow SA to mourn the death of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. This, the embattled power utility said, would allow the nation to participate in the King’s memorial service. “This extraordinary measure has been implemented to allow the …

OR Tambo – South Africa’s biggest airport – has been plunged into darkness on Sunday morning, after an Eskom sub-station caught fire in Kempton Park. Ahead of a make-or-break week for Eskom, the power utility has been rocked onto the back-foot already. A major sub-station fire at Kempton Park has …

South Africa’s struggling state power firm Eskom said on Sunday that it would extend electricity cuts until 5 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) on Monday. Eskom said late on Saturday that it would cut up to 2,000 megawatts (MW) from the national grid from 2000 GMT on Saturday until 0600 …

A report on how to deal with Eskom’s group debt burden of around R440bn is expected by year-end, the department of public enterprises told members of Parliament on Wednesday during a briefing. The department’s Deputy Director General, Makgola Makololo, was briefing the oversight committee on public enterprises on its Special …