Many role players in the local energy sector continue to second guess policy makers while waiting for the completion and adoption of the final Integrated Resources Plan (IRP). This is the plan that should serve as a basis for SA’s spending decisions on energy. The energy sector, possibly because of its strategic importance and [...]
The Democratic Alliance is like an athlete who does relatively well for the major part of a 56km ultra-marathon – despite a small cramp here and there – and, as they near the finish line, around the 53km mark, they begin to lose focus and falter, forgetting what they entered the race for in the [...]
In a recent TV interview, I heard the news anchor note that the bar for reputational tolerance seems to have been lowered in much of the contemporary world. Flag of South Africa , This is a computer generated and 3d rendered image. By implication, it seems, we shouldn't be surprised if standards have [...]
The crescendo of post-apartheid bad behaviour, either through the abuse of political office or other manners of corruption by powerful South African politicians, especially those who belong to the governing African National Congress, can be said to have begun with the notorious Arms Deal in the 1990s. FILE -- In this Wednesday, July 5, [...]
President Cyril Ramaphosa declared over the weekend that the 2019 elections would be more important than the historic 1994 ones; the ones that marked a new beginning for South Africa following many years of brutal apartheid. It is unclear if he really meant this, or if it’s something he said while still caught up in [...]