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Image: courtesy of Megawatt Park After years of relentless above-inflation price hikes and chronic load-shedding forced fed-up South Africans to embrace rooftop solar, state-owned power utility Eskom has devised a controversial response: charge customers anyway. In its recent annual results presentation, a slide explicitly outlined the utility's strategy: “Even where customers self-generate or buy elsewhere, Eskom will retain revenue.” According to Eskom, this will be achieve

Image: FF Plus The Labour Appeal Court ruling allowing Eskom to prioritise race over merit in appointing individuals to senior management positions undermines all principles of competence and hard work. (Eskom allowed to exclude white males from senior management appointments: MyBroadband: 8 November 2025) Mr Alwyn Erasmus, who had been employed by Eskom for over 30 years, had his application for a vacant senior management position rejected several years ago because he is whi