The boss of state-owned Eskom Andre de Ruyter announced "a high stage of load shedding this week", using jargon for planned outages.

The utility supplements its generating capacity, which is mainly derived from coal, by buying power from solar and wind farms under contrac...

Consumption makes up about 60 per cent of GDP across many developing economies.

US gold futures were also down 0.1 per cent at $1,320.70 an ounce.

Ramaphosa came to power in February pledging to revive the economy and attract investors after Jacob Zuma was ousted from office at the end...

A power project in one of the world's most prospective copper centres offers huge scope.

SAfrican utility Eskom claims that it ensures power transmission & distribution losses are well below 10% through a mix of energy efficienc...

Engineering company KEC International on Monday said it has bagged orders worth Rs 1,018 crore, raising its order book to Rs 7,400 crore.

The Rs 313-crore RRVPN order is for construction of 765 kV transmission lines between Baran to Jaipur on turnkey basis.

The Tata group has increased stake in its South African telecom venture, Neotel, by 30%, thereby taking the total equity in the communicati...

Lonmin Plc the world's third-biggest platinum producer, declined to reiterate its 2012 output target due to power problems in South Africa.

Jyoti Structures on Tuesday said it has bagged two orders worth Rs 253 crore from Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd and Eskom Ent...

Jyoti Structures has bagged an order valued at $39.64 million (Rs 160 crore) for erection of 220KV and 132KV transmission lines and substat...

Hitachi Ltd has clinched an order worth 250 billion yen ($2.4 billion) for six boilers for coal-fired thermal power plants from South Afric...

South Africa’s new telecom infrastructure company InfraCo, in which the Tatas (through its long distance arm VSNL) have picked up 26%, will...

The South African government may deal a blow to the Tatas’ telecom operations in their country.