Electricity

Mondlo residents want to leave their municipality

Hundreds of people marched to the Abaqulusi Municipality offices to demand services

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Brief | 20 February 2025

Diepsloot protesters call for Premier’s help in dispute with Eskom

Dozens of transformers installed by residents have been removed by the power utility

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Brief | 19 February 2025

Protest erupts after neighbourhood without power for weeks

KwaNobuhle councillor urges residents to attend ward meetings

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Brief | 11 February 2025

Tense standoff between police and Kliptown tenants

City Power officials chased away by angry group

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News | 30 January 2025

Protesters block N2 for hours at Grabouw

They demanded sanitation and water

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Brief | 15 January 2025

NERSA officials forced to call off electricity tariff hearing

Hundreds of Durban residents showed up at the venue on Thursday but the room could only host about 100 people.

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Brief | 21 November 2024

200 RDP homes waiting more than six months for Eskom supply

“Only Eskom can answer,” says Amahlathi Municipality spokesperson about Northern Node Farm in the Eastern Cape

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Brief | 18 November 2024

Long queues as Eskom meter upgrade deadline approaches

After 24 November old meters will no longer load electricity tokens

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Brief | 15 November 2024

Illegal electricity cables “a huge risk” to Cape Town hospital

City promises shack dwellers will get their own electricity

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Brief | 11 November 2024

Residents help Free State municipality restore electricity

Dozens of people from affected villages helped officials for several days to erect fallen electricity pylons

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Brief | 4 November 2024

Eskom withdraws from Cape Town informal settlement after second attack in two weeks

On Monday a security vehicle escorting the power utility’s workers into the area was hijacked.

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Brief | 23 October 2024

Johannesburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power

City Power removed and confiscated 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at R6-million

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Brief | 17 October 2024

The health and economic costs of emissions at Kusile power plant

Eskom has an exemption to operate without flue gas desulpharization until March

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Science | 14 October 2024

Western Cape town “held to ransom” by cable theft syndicate

Repeated extended blackouts as electricity poles are cut down and cables stolen

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News | 10 October 2024

Trash dumped at councillor’s office in electricity protest

Power has not been restored for a year to Dunoon fire victims

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Brief | 26 September 2024

Hundreds of Limpopo villagers march to Eskom to demand an end to load reduction

They blame illegal connections for their electricity troubles and want Eskom to intervene

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Brief | 17 September 2024