Electricity
Rolling out solar power for informal settlements
Zonke Energy says there is an urgent need and demand outstrips supply
Right to reply | 26 September 2022
Ekurhuleni family demands investigation after baby exposed to police teargas
They claim police threw the container into the property while chasing protesters
News | 21 September 2022
Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks
Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly
News | 19 September 2022
Shack dwellers say they cannot afford solar power company’s monthly fees
Empowerment project stumbles in Khayelitsha, showing the complexity of providing solutions to informal settlements
News | 19 September 2022
Community blames loadshedding for deaths of young couple in shack fire
Police are investigating as several other shacks were also destroyed, leaving some families homeless
Brief | 12 September 2022
Harrismith and several towns without power for six days
Substation at Maluti-A-Phofung municipality in the Free State still down. No response from municipality to our questions.
Brief | 12 September 2022
Fed up with poor service, hundreds march to Eskom office in Khayelitsha
Residents want workers to return to the local office and for Eskom to fix high mast lights, transformers and faulty street lights in the community.
By Vincent Lali
News | 8 September 2022
South Africa does need some gas in the energy mix – just not the kind Gwede Mantashe wants
Biodigestion is a cheap, low-tech way for communities to produce some of their power
By Neil Thomas Stacey and Celestin Sempuga
Science | 6 September 2022
No light at the end of the tender for Eastern Cape villages
Millions have been spent on the Sivumela project and eight years later, hundreds of households are still without electricity
News | 1 September 2022