People dig up the road in a protest of service delivery. Residents complaining about the lack of water and electricity services, decided to block the R33 with stones, and dug up the road.Most of the communities in Umzinyathi were in the deep rural parts and it was therefore hard for them to deliver services as…
Andre de Ruyter is Eskom's 13th CEO in the past decade and he knew the task will be challenging.De Ruyter has been nine months on the job, and so far government has given him the space needed to make tough calls.Since taking over he has confronted managers over poor maintenance practices. Andre de Ruyter knew…
Zola Tsotsi Felix Dlangamandla, Netwerk24 Eskom's former chairperson, Zola Tsotsi, continued to give evidence before the commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday. Tsotsi said the suspension of four senior board members in 2015 may have been a Gupta ploy to "have people in the organisation who would serve their direct interests".After the four were…
9 min read The following story contains spoilers for Landman season 2, episode 10, “Tragedy and Flies.” "LIFE AIN'T GOT a plan for you. You got to have the plan. Then you wrestle with life to make it come true.” It was only one episode ago that T.L. (Sam Elliott), summabitch prophet that he is
You’re going through something big, but you don’t speak up. You’re exhausted, but you white-knuckle through the day. Your friends offer help, but you brush it off. If this sounds familiar, you probably pride yourself for being self-sufficient and always tending to your own needs. But when you make a conscious choice to remain an
Honestly, I am trying to take a few days off and enjoy time away for my wife’s birthday. However, I just got the below photo from the father of one of the 51 children impacted by the ByHeart botulism outbreak. He found the formula still on the shelf at a Safeway in Flagstaff, Arizona –