Cyril Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday unveiled government's plan to “fix Eskom and improve its existing fleet of power stations”. Ramaphosa listed a number of ...

To address the current crisis — which led to SA, over the last month, experiencing the deepest power cuts, run over the longest continuous period yet — Ramaphosa said that the immediate focus would be “fixing Eskom and improving the performance of the existing fleet of power stations”... A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily. A large part of the “action plan to end load-shedding” as announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night rests on fixing the struggling state-owned power utility and on expanding and fast-tracking the state’s own renewable energy procurement processes.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa turned to the private sector in a bid to end a 14-year-old power crisis that the government has failed to resolve.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced far-reaching measures to address South Africa's energy crisis in his latest 'family meeting'.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced far-reaching measures to address South Africa’s energy crisis in his latest ‘family meeting’. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced far-reaching measures to address South Africa’s energy crisis in his latest ‘family meeting’. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced far-reaching measures to address South Africa’s energy crisis in his latest ‘family meeting’. Photo: Flickr

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President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 8pm on Monday on the energy crisis, the presidency said on Monday.

The presidency said Ramaphosa visited Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga and Eskom's Megawatt Park headquarters in Johannesburg on July 16 and met power station managers “to gain an understanding” of the challenges affecting Eskom's generation fleet. “The briefing by the president follows a number of consultations within government and with stakeholders and energy experts outside government to find a collective solution to the energy crisis‚” the presidency said. President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 8pm on Monday on the energy crisis, the presidency said on Monday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night announced what he called an 'energy action plan' to tackle South Africa's power crisis. This is what the plan ...

The tracker will particularly hold the President accountable on the commitments made to add new generation capacity.” Put differently, Eskom needs to double the capacity provided by its entire fleet — which at present is about 46,000MW — if it is to ensure and sustain energy security. “The President has announced interventions that will address these persistent, but obvious, failures that South Africans have endured for far longer than we ever needed to. South Africans have endured electricity blackouts, euphemistically called load shedding, for 15 years. - Ensuring that all projects from Bid Window 5 of the renewable energy programme can start construction on schedule. - Removing the licensing threshold for embedded generation completely and tabling “special legislation in Parliament on an expedited basis” to address the legal and regulatory obstacles to new generation capacity for a limited period;

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced plans and interventions to improve power supply and generate more power to the national grid.

The president held consultations with government, stakeholders, energy experts outside government to find a collective solution to the energy crisis. The president held consultations with government, stakeholders, energy experts outside government to find a collective solution to the energy crisis South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced plans and interventions to improve power supply and generate more power to the national grid.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will announce measures to address the country's energy crisis Monday evening. The briefing follows a number of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of new emergency measures to deal with South Africa's electricity crisis.

- Eskom will be constructing its first solar and battery storage projects at Komati, Majuba, Lethabo and several other power stations. This means that those who can and have installed solar panels in their homes or businesses will be able to sell surplus power they don’t need to Eskom. - Over the next three months, Eskom will start to buy electricity from existing independent power producers. - Eskom has been given the go-ahead to increase its budget over the next 12 months for critical maintenance. "We are also establishing a single point of entry for all energy project applications, to ensure coordination of approval processes across government," Ramaphosa said. - A complete scrapping of licencing requirements for private energy projects that feed into the electricity grid.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night addressed the nation, emphasising the urgent need to add new generation capacity to the national grid.

We will remove the licencing threshold from embedded generation completely," the president said. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night addressed the nation, emphasising the urgent need to add new generation capacity to the national grid. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night addressed the nation, emphasising the urgent need to add new generation capacity to the national grid.

We're all fed up with blackouts, but the President has a plan. He's announced a raft of new measures to tackle the energy crisis.

He says these measures will go a long way in improving the unstable electricity supply. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a number of interventions to tackle the energy crisis. "These measures are preferable to declaring a state of disaster.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a range of measures to stop blackouts while addressing the nation on Monday night.

We've had many opportunities since 2008 to make the big decisions and we keep on missing them," Swilling said. We need to look at all options. "We should be talking about an energy emergency.

Telkom wants to interdict the SIU probe against it pending the hearing of the arguments seeking to declare the investigation unconstitutional and invalid.

TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod explains the background of the Telkom saga and why it's pushing back - on The Money Show.

I think he's been stirring up a lot of the allegations... Scott had a big beef about how Telkom handled that tender process. Telkom takes Ramaphosa to court in bid to stop SIU probe

Telkom has filed papers at the North Gauteng High Court to halt a probe into the company's dealings in its African operations dating back to 2006.

It subsequently wrote down the unit for more than its initial investments before selling it. - The allegations referred by the president to the SIU lack the particulars which are mandatory in terms of section 2 (2) (g) of the SIU Act. - Telkom does not fall under any grounds listed in section 2 (2) of the SIU Act. Telkom is not a state institution, it does not use public money or control state assets or public property as contemplated in the SIU Act. He adds the proclamation is ultra vires because the allegations contained in the proclamation fall outside the purview of section 2 (2) of the SIU Act in that: “The president can only instruct the SIU, and may only refer the matter to the SIU, if he deems it necessary to do so on the grounds contemplated in section 2 (2) of the SIU Act,” Teurlinckx says. According to the founding affidavit seen by ITWeb, the genesis of the allegations referred by the president to the SIU are complaints made by Scott about two tenders put out by Telkom in 2005 and 2007.