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[News] South Africa has no choice but to pivot to renewables: De Ruyter

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has said South Africa has no choice but to shift from coal to renewable energy as it is becoming impossible to secure funding for new ...

[News] De Ruyter slams 100MW cap on private power generation

Government last year lifted the cap on private power generation from 1MW to 100MW, below which companies don’t need to be licensed by energy regulator Nersa. ...

[Video] Effects of poor service delivery

Effective and reliable service delivery remains one of the biggest challenges in South Africa. Municipalities across the country are in crisis with broken ...

[Opinion] Risks – and opportunities – for SA in 2022

22 January 2022 - What does 2022 hold for South Africa? We continue to consider the country to be in an exceptionally fragile state both politically and ...

[Opinion] Budget bottom line: SA is living on borrowed time

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and the government he serves are increasingly living on borrowed time. In the absence of growth-enhancing policy reforms and ...

[Video] Risks And Opportunity In Africa

The CRA's David Ansara and Bheki Mahlobo discuss the key risks and opportunities on the African continent.

[Opinion] Unrealistic approach to investment conference

Expectations abound within the government (and apparently among observers too) that this week’s investment conference will help to attract the flow of capital ...

[Video] South Africa has run out of money

South Africa has run out of money and the only way to resolve this problem is to cut back on state spending, which is politically very difficult to do.

[Opinion] Save Stats SA

The slow crippling of Stats SA through budget cuts and understaffing constitutes more than a threat to one institution. It stands to pull the rug out from ...