POWER & PROMISES Deputy mayor denies promising Nelson Mandela Bay community temporary electricity after protests 5 min 0 By Riaan Marais
LIGHTS OUT City in the dark — Power cuts choke Joburg’s once-vibrant small businesses 9 min 2 By Ferial Haffajee
ELECTRICITY FAILURE ‘Misty conditions’ and a ‘burning tyre’ take out power in Nelson Mandela Bay 4 min 5 By Estelle Ellis
ALL POWER TO THEM Nelson Mandela Bay businesses ‘adopt’ substations help to keep the lights on 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
PRICE OF POWER OP-ED How Eskom’s 2025/26 electricity tariffs will affect residential customers 8 min 2 By Chris Yelland
MUNICIPAL ELECTRICITY GRID Darling estate solar farm depicts novel approach to embedded power generation 4 min 4 By Lindsey Schutters
POWER CRISIS ‘It’s unacceptable; something must give,’ Ramokgopa tells SA after third bout of load shedding in 30 days 4 min 21 By Julia Evans
POWER CRISIS Eskom announces weekend rolling blackouts to replenish emergency diesel reserves as units go offline 4 min 7 By Ethan van Diemen
POWER CRISIS Load shedding Stage 6 shock — Ramokgopa rules out sabotage, says ‘the buck stops’ with him 7 min 25 By Kristin Engel
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Kneecapped - How power cuts shed jobs, life, your mental health 7 min 2 By Ferial Haffajee, Sahra Heuwel and Janet Heard
POLITICAL PLEA @ 113 JUBILEE The ANC ‘still leads’ despite existential crisis – key takeaways from Ramaphosa’s January 8th Statement 6 min 38 By Victoria O’Regan
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: The Free State is in a real state and pensioners are paying the price 5 min 2 By Tim Cohen
POWER POTENTIAL OP-ED We didn’t waste the load shedding crisis, but did we need to wait for it to happen? 12 min 3 By Mark Swilling
POWER CRISIS ‘It’s chaos’ — Eskom prepaid meter scramble leads to death in Soweto 4 min 11 By Nkululeko Ndlovu and Bheki C. Simelane
THE CONVERSATION OP-ED Gas isn’t a good alternative to coal — South Africa should focus on solar, wind and green hydrogen 5 min 12 By Richard Calland
TARIFF TIRADE Food or electricity — power tax forces a cruel choice on Joburg’s poorest people 7 min 14 By Ferial Haffajee
ANALYSIS As load shedding goes local, the power gap between rich and poor widens 4 min 17 By Stephen Grootes
COMPANIES Telkom scales back network resilience investments after decline in Eskom rolling blackouts 4 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
