Fears are growing that inadequate deliveries of coal, some of it from Gupta-owned mines, are putting the reliability of Eskom electricity supply at risk, and blackouts could come as early as this month. The Democratic Alliance…
Coming to Cape Town? Let us first pick your pockets. Not content with relishing the so-called new normal in which baths are banned, loos hardly ever flush, and lawns and gardens decay to different…
The Department of Water and Sanitation has announced it will be streaming water 138km from the Berg River Dam to the Misverstand Dam, in a crisis measure to prevent taps in the West Coast from runnng dry…
As at today, Monday 16 April 2018, our collective consumption over the past week was 542 million litres of water per day. This is up from an average of 516 million litres last week. Dam levels…
Parastatal Eskom says it needs to “recover costs already spent in the provision of electricity” totalling R66.6 billion. However, it is not demanding this all at once, which would avoid an immediate 30 percent tariff hike. The…
After months of bullying Capetonians into taking shorter showers, hardly ever flushing their loos, and threatening Day Zero, the City of Cape Town has decided to issue a flood warning. No. It was not one of…
Energy Minister Jeff Radebe delivered an unexpected blow to an energy conference in Sandton, Tuesday, by switching off at the last moment. Just the previous day, organisers of the conference were enticing delegates with the prospect…
The vast majority of The Messenger readers believe that Day Zero will be faced in the Western Cape next year – when the water will literally stop running from domestic taps. Asked the simple question: Will…