South Africa will embrace efforts by businesses to generate their own electricity, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
The government asked industry for the cheapest and quickest options to ease a power crunch, as cabinet held an emergency meeting to try and resolve the crisis.
President Cyril Ramaphosa holds an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday to try and resolve a power crisis.
Two big travel insurance companies have stopped covering tickets issued by SAA against insolvency as doubts grow about whether the airline can survive.
The government is working on "immediate actions" to ensure SAA survival, the department of public enterprises said.
Analysts welcomed the move but were sceptical that officials would follow through with it in full, given fierce opposition from unions and vested interests in the ...
South Africa aims to complete the split of state utility Eskom in 2022 and open it to more competition under a long-awaited plan to overhaul the firm.
The government unveiled the outlines of a plan to overhaul Eskom, saying it hoped to complete a legal separation of the utility into three entities around 2022. ...
South Africa's plans to boost electricity generation over the next decade will be a mix of renewable energy and coal power, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said on ...
Olive Shisana, special adviser to President Cyril Ramaphosa, said: "This government is not going to do something that will collapse the economy,"