Why Blackouts Are Still Crippling South Africa
South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.
washingtonpost.comWhy Blackouts Are Still Crippling South Africa: QuickTake
South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.
washingtonpost.comWhy Blackouts Are Still Crippling South Africa: QuickTake
South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.
washingtonpost.comEXPLAINER: The scandal engulfing South Africa's president
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm
washingtonpost.comEXPLAINER: The scandal engulfing South Africa's president
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm.
South African president grilled in Parliament on farm theft
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted in Parliament Thursday by opposition politicians who pressed him to step down from office pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm
washingtonpost.comSouth African president grilled in Parliament on farm theft
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted in Parliament Thursday by opposition politicians who pressed him to step down from office pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm.
Meet the Guptas, Symbols of South African Corruption
The three Gupta brothers have come to embody the corruption that blighted South African President Jacob Zuma’s almost nine-year rule. They allegedly used their friendship with the president and business ties to his son, Duduzane, to influence cabinet appointments and secure illicit state contracts worth billions of dollars. They fled South Africa for Dubai in early 2018 after the ruling party forced Zuma to quit and were charged with graft later that year. In June 2022, two of the Gupta brothers
washingtonpost.comDubai police arrest 2 in South African corruption case
Dubai police say they have arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection with a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma, the latest high-profile extradition case involving the United Arab Emirates
washingtonpost.comDubai arrests 2 Gupta brothers over South African fraud case
Dubai police say they have arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection with a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma, the latest high-profile extradition case involving the United Arab Emirates.
Another report alleges corruption by ex-South African leader
Another damning report into government corruption in South Africa has recommended further investigations and the possible prosecution of former President Jacob Zuma for allegedly receiving bribes to influence the awarding of state contracts.
Corruption trial of South Africa's ex-president is postponed
The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 while it is decided whether he must be physically present in the courtroom or can appear via video from where he is in detention.
South Africa's leader vows to restore order, catch plotters
South Africa's leader went to Johannesburg's Soweto township Sunday to view badly damaged shopping centers where people were trampled to death in rioting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. President Cyril Ramaphosa toured the Ndofaya Mall in the Meadowlands part of Soweto, where at least 10 people died in the ransacking. The protests quickly escalated to a weeklong spree of violence, South Africa's worst rioting since the country achieved majority rule democracy in 1994.
news.yahoo.com25,000 troops deployed to quell South Africa riots, 117 dead
In one of the largest deployments of soldiers since the end of white minority rule, 25,000 South African troops began taking up positions Thursday to help quell weeklong riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. The government said 10,000 soldiers were on the streets by Thursday morning patrolling alongside police, and the South African National Defence Force had also called up all of its reserve force of 12,000 troops. In a show of strength, a convoy of more than a dozen armored personnel carriers brought soldiers into Gauteng province, South Africa's most populous, which includes the largest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria.
news.yahoo.com'I was in tears': South Africans take stand against looting
Surveying the uneasy standoff between South African soldiers and huddles of young men faced off Wednesday across the rubble-strewn street in front of Soweto’s Maponya mall, Katlego Motati shook her head sadly. “I’m standing here against vandals and hooligans,” the 32-year-old said of the weeklong unrest and looting sparked by the imprisonment of ex-President Jacob Zuma, which has left at least 72 people dead. “When I saw the destruction on the news, I was in tears, seeing how all this has panned out," Motati said.
news.yahoo.comRioting, looting continues in South Africa, deaths up to 32
South Africa's rioting continued Tuesday with the death toll rising to 32 as police and the military struggle to quell the looting and violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Many of the deaths occurred in chaotic stampedes as scores of people looted food, electric appliances, liquor, and clothing from retail centers, KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala told the press on Tuesday morning.
news.yahoo.comViolence erupts over jailing of South Africa's ex-president
Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma are protesting his imprisonment, burning trucks, commercial property, and blocking major roads in KwaZulu-Natal province. Zuma started serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court earlier this week.
news.yahoo.comRights groups hail imprisonment of South Africa's ex-leader
Human rights groups have welcomed the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who on Thursday began serving a 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court after handing himself over to police minutes before a midnight deadline. Zuma was being held at the Estcourt Correctional Center in KwaZulu-Natal province about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from his rural home in Nkandla. Zuma, 79, was convicted and sentenced for defying a court order to testify before a judicial commission investigating widespread allegations of corruption during his 2009-2018 presidency.
news.yahoo.comA South African Court's Ruling Against Jacob Zuma Offers Hope for the Rule of Law
A landmark court decision announced this week gives many South Africans reassurance that their governing institutions work. On June 29, the country’s constitutional court ruled that former president Jacob Zuma must serve 15 months in prison for failing to appear before a commission investigating corruption during Zuma’s presidency (2009-2018). Zuma not only rejected the commission’s authority and refused to answer charges or mount a defense, he also wrote a 21-page letter to the chief justice of the constitutional court that charged that the corruption commission was “established to destroy the work that I did when I served my country as President.”
news.yahoo.comSouth Africa's ex-leader Zuma urges court to stop his arrest
Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday continued his efforts to avoid imprisonment by urging a regional court to block his arrest by police. Zuma's lawyers called on the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal province to stop the order made last week by the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, that police must arrest Zuma by midnight on Wednesday after he was sentenced last week to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma's lawyers argued that the court should stop the police from arresting him until the Constitutional Court rules on his application to rescind the sentence, which will be heard on July 12.
news.yahoo.comSouth Africa's ex-president Zuma says he'll appeal jail term
Ignoring efforts to defuse a tense standoff, former South African President Jacob Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing the 15-month prison sentence and his impending arrest by police. Several witnesses, including former Cabinet ministers and top executives of state-owned corporations, have testified of Zuma's wrongdoing, including allowing his associates, the Gupta family, to influence his Cabinet appointments and lucrative state contracts. Zuma did not turn himself in to authorities within five days, as the court ruling had ordered, and now faces arrest by police.
news.yahoo.comSouth Africa's ruling ANC tries to defuse standoff over Zuma
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has sent some of its top leaders to defuse rising tensions over the pending arrest of former President Jacob Zuma. Earlier this week, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by the Constitutional Court for contempt of court. Hundreds of Zuma’s staunchest supporters have gathered outside his home in KwaZulu-Natal province, vowing to resist any police attempts to take him into custody.
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