MORE HOT AIR
By Claire Bisseker
Eskom is the brains behind SA's new electricity master plan, which makes scant room for private-sector involvement or renewable energy - a scary thought at a time when public dissatisfaction is at a peak. The department of energy is ex...

HOGAN WINS POWER PLAY
By Carol Paton
As the political fog lifts a little, public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan has come out looking good. After weeks of strife at Eskom, including the uninvited political intervention of President Jacob Zuma, it was Hogan's sol...

MAYDAY, MAYDAY
By David Williams
About a year before the huge power cuts that crippled much of the economy in January and February 2008, Eskom invited editors and broadcasters to an off-the-record breakfast briefing at its Megawatt Park headquarters. The 2007 mee...