In a ruling likely to have significant impact on other municipalities, the City of Tshwane has won a court battle against Eskom and Nersa, potentially securing an additional R125m per month in revenue for the cash-strapped metro. Moneyweb reports that Gauteng ... Read More
On 24 April 2026, the Minister of Water & Sanitation published Government Gazette Notice 7408, requiring all unregistered water users to register within 90 days of publication, placing the deadline at approximately 23 July 2026. In a Webber Wentzel commentary ... Read More
The HRC has recommended that the council of the troubled Eastern Cape’s Makana Local Municipality be dissolved, reports News24. But communities in Makhanda feel more consequence management was needed to hold municipal leadership accountable for service delivery failures. They also ... Read More
SA secured close to $14bn in international climate finance commitments since launching its Just Energy Transition Partnership with wealthy donor countries in 2021, but only $5.8bn or 41% was allocated to projects, Polity notes. Funding data presented at a ... Read More
A third of SA's 130 government-owned air-quality monitoring stations were not fully operational and more than 50% were running at diminished or no capacity, leaving the government blind to pollution levels in provinces such as Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West ... Read More
The Eskom restructuring task team, chaired by the DG of National Treasury Duncan Pieterse, has made significant progress in preparing for the establishment of the Transmission System Operator President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. A Policy Watch report notes that he ... Read More
The DFFE has, by notice in the Government Gazette, announced that SANParks is developing management plans for the Langebaan Lagoon, Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected Area, Sixteen Mile Beach MPA, Jutten Island MPA, Malgas Island MPA, Marcus Island MPA and associated ... Read More
SA’s renewable energy IPPs are facing a new and rapidly escalating financial risk – and it has nothing to do with the wind dropping or the sun going behind a cloud, writes energy consultant Chris Yelland in News24. 'It is ... Read More
Obstacles around obtaining visas will shut some of the world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries out of crucial UN climate talks that are taking place in Germany this month, country representatives have told The Independent. Countries including Sudan, Yemen, Sierra ... Read More
Leading global brands including Amazon, Ericsson and Sony are ‘likely’ to have sourced minerals linked to a militia accused of widespread sexual violence, summary executions and torture, a new investigation claims. A report in The Guardian notes that the companies ... Read More
The Kenya Wildlife service has rolled out plans to relocate its 62-year-old Nairobi animal orphanage due to an increase in the number of rescued wildlife it houses as a rising human population leads to more frequent conflict with the country ... Read More
The world’s first wind-powered underwater data centre has started operations off the coast of Shanghai, as China presses forward with solutions for energy challenges created by the country’s artificial intelligence boom. A report in The Guardian notes that the Shanghai ... Read More
The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an ‘unfathomable’ increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new study has ... Read More
A new study shows that, through their ownership of companies and private financial and physical assets, from oil producers to property developments, the super-rich are responsible for an outsized slice of the greenhouse gases that are overheating the planet. A ... Read More
* A major joint operation by City Power and Eskom in Kya Sands, Randburg, resulted in the destruction of four illegal transformers and the removal of six others used for electricity theft. The operation was conducted on Tuesday with support from ... Read More
* A lion that escaped from a private game reserve in northern KZN has been put down after wildlife officials were unable to capture it safely. The animal, understood to have escaped over the weekend, was tracked to Langwane, an area ... Read More
Tunnel link between India and ChinaIndian engineers broke through the final rock section in the strategic Zojila tunnel through a Himalayan mountain on 9 June, a milestone in providing all-weather access to the frontier Ladakh region with China. India and China ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v National Energy Regulator of SA Judgment: 8 June 2026 Keywords: Administrative law – Electricity distribution licence amendment granted to Eskom without amending concurrent overlapping municipal licence – Whether overlapping licences ... Read More
