POWER CRISIS Does Ramaphosa’s new electricity czar have enough of a spark to end rolling blackouts? 8 min 6 By Ray Mahlaka
AMABHUNGANE COMMENT State of procurement disaster – woefully inadequate oversight is a licence to plunder 4 min 5 By Caroline James
OP-ED South Africa’s post-disaster choices: Social upheaval, Dictatorship or Renaissance? 7 min 11 By Joel Netshitenzhe
COMPANY RESULTS Rolling blackouts generate a 300% jump in Standard Bank’s fuel costs 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
RETAIL Shoprite rolls with the punches as sales surpass R100bn in six months 4 min 1 By Georgina Crouth
ANNUAL RESULTS Lucky number 14 hails Nedbank’s digital transformation strategy 4 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
FACTS AND FLAWS Debating the state of the nation – Which MPs got their facts right? 11 min 2 By Africa Check
THE SHUFFLE Can Ramaphosa's new Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, turn around a country without power? 3 min 18 By Ferial Haffajee
ESKOM INTELLIGENCE FILES EXPLAINER Filthy seam of sabotage – how thieving cartels are plunging South Africa into darkness 9 min 26 By Ethan van Diemen
STATE OF DISASTER REGULATIONS Not all hospitals to be spared power cuts – ministers explain ‘inevitable’ new rules 6 min 7 By Victoria O’Regan
COMPANIES Aspen shares spike on prescription of moves to go off-grid and new manufacturing business 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
COMPANY RESULTS FNB shows solid growth, but load shedding sends operating costs rocketing to R40-million 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
POWER CRISIS Western Cape maps out end to power cuts following De Ruyter’s warning of ‘big trouble ahead’ 3 min 7 By Paul Burkhardt and Paul Vecchiatto
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index contracts into negative terrain after power crisis crunches confidence 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
THE CONVERSATION Home power backup systems – electrical engineers answer your questions 5 min 3 By MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Arnold Rix
TAPPED OUT Make a plan and fix Gauteng's massive water outages, activists tell Joburg city and Rand Water 5 min 0 By Michelle Banda
POWER TALENT CRISIS SA’s energy and climate brain drain: Will the last person to leave please switch off the lights 3 min 2 By Ethan van Diemen
ESKOM IN THE DOCK 25 years in the making – the real reasons we have rolling blackouts according to De Ruyter 7 min 8 By Ethan van Diemen
ENERGY CRISIS SANDF increasing troop deployment to Eskom power stations to combat persistent crime 3 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen