# Eskom says significant progress has been made in its Load Reduction Eradication Programme, with over one-million customers removed from load reduction schedules. This represents 65-percent of the 1.69 million customers targeted under the programme. Eskom spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena, says originally established to address load reduction affecting 23.5-percent of the power utility’s 7.2 million customer […]
# The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, including Russia, have agreed to increase oil production as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains below pre-war levels. The seven oil-producing members will raise daily output by 188-thousand barrels from August. This is on top of similar increases for June and July. Gulf oil exports in June jumped […]
# Voormalige DA-leier, Tony Leon, ontken alle bewerings dat sy skakel-firma, Resolve Communications, enige onbehoorlike politieke invloed in die regering van nasionale eenheid het. Dit volg na bewerings dat DA-ministers deur Leon beïnvloed word om met verteenwoordigers van Elon Musk se Starlink te vergader. Leon het tydens ʼn onderhoud met News24 verklaar dat hy persoonlik […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, ontken sy ontmoeting met Starlink en ander globale satelliet-maatskappye het sy besluitneming beïnvloed. Dit volg nadat die gewese DA-leier, John Steenhuisen, beweer het Resolve Communications, wat aan voormalige DA-leier Tony Leon behoort, het sy verhouding met senior partyleiers gebruik om ontmoetings tussen DA-ministers en kliënte […]
# Gauteng se LUR vir Finansies, Nkululeko Dunga, sê die provinsie se munisipale oudituitkomste het agteruitgegaan, met slegs twee van die elf munisipaliteite wat skoon oudits in die 2024/2025-boekjaar behaal het. Regoor die provinsie het munisipaliteite 14,4-miljard-rand aan onreëlmatige uitgawes aangegaan, terwyl toenemende onreëlmatige uitgawes gedurende die huidige administrasie 45,92-miljard-rand bereik het. Dunga sê swak […]
# Former DA leader, Tony Leon, has strongly denied allegations that his public relations firm, Resolve Communications, wielded improper political influence inside the government of national unity. This comes after allegations that DA ministers were being influenced by former Leon to take meetings with Elon Musk’s Starlink representatives. In an interview with News24, Leon stated […]
# Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, has denied that his engagement with Starlink and other global satellite companies influenced his decision-making. This comes after former DA leader John Steenhuisen claimed that Resolve Communications, owned by former DA leader Tony Leon, used its proximity to senior party leaders to facilitate meetings between DA […]
# Gauteng Finance MEC Nkululeko Dunga says the province’s municipal audit outcomes have regressed, with only two of the eleven municipalities achieving clean audits in the 2024/2025 financial year. Across the province, municipalities incurred 14.4-billion-rand in irregular expenditure, while cumulative irregular expenditure during the current administration has reached 45.92-billion-rand. Dunga says poor financial management is […]
# Eskom continues to maintain additional system capacity, with four-thousand-844-megawatts in cold reserve due to excess capacity, providing further assurance of system adequacy. The power utility spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says last week, average unplanned outages declined to nine-thousand-850-megawatts, compared to 14-thousand-981-megawatts during the same period last year. She says this is representing a reduction of […]
