News in South Africa 22nd November: 1. Inflation rises ahead of SARB decision: South Africa’s annual consumer price inflation (CPI) rose slightly in October, reaching the upper end of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) target range. StatsSA announced today that annual CPI was 5.9% in October 2023, up from the 5.9% recorded in September […]
News in South Africa 18th April: 1. Load shedding vs blackout hours: It’s only halfway through April 2023, and South Africa has already experienced as much load shedding (hours) as almost the entirety of 2022 – and the number of hours of blackouts you experience is worse than ever before. These are some of the […]
News in South Africa 12th January: 1. Load shedding to damage infrastructure: Raised levels of load-shedding are a crisis for the Tshwane municipality, affecting the condition of its electricity network and its ability to attend to outages. City of Tshwane MMC for utilities and regional operations Daryl Johnston made this comment on Wednesday after Eskom […]
