News in South Africa 17th January: 1. Social unrest warning: South Africa is becoming increasingly fragile as it loses key social cohesion functions, risking increased violence, dissatisfaction and social unrest. This is the view of Wits governance expert Professor Alex van den Heever, who told SABC News that South Africa is showing an increase in fragility. His […]
News in South Africa 3rd February: 1. Water supply a major concern: As load-shedding intensified on Wednesday there were concerns that Gauteng municipalities which suffered from water shortages would again have more communities with dry taps. On Wednesday the power utility implemented stage 6 load-shedding from stage 5 the previous day. The utility again moved to stage […]
News in South Africa 16th January: 1. Ramaphosa stays home for power crisis: President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his visit to Switzerland to urgently attend to the energy crisis back home. Ramaphosa was scheduled to travel to Davos for the World Economic Forum summit, an annual meeting of world leaders, business and civil society which […]
News in South Africa 5th May: 1. Unions striking water supply: Rand Water has given assurance that it’s highly unlikely water supply will be impacted if the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) goes on a protected strike – but a union representative says it’s a case of “wait and see”. Samwu has announced that […]
