SA Money Daily | ANALYSIS | New power disaster rules open the way for a lot more deaths at Eskom's hands

amaBhungane | Construction mafias, corruption, your water: Govt turns to courts to get taps running

View Online SA Money Daily The biggest business, economic and market news of the day. AHMED AREFF, NEWS24 BUSINESS DEPUTY EDITOR ANALYSIS | New power disaster rules open the way for a lot more deaths at Eskom's hands Eskom has long estimated that it kills a couple of hundred people a year through bad air.   Independent research suggests the number is in the thousands – and that the company is on track to kill closer to 80 000 people within years, not counting the impact of climate change.   But that number is set to rise significantly very soon, when Eskom is explicitly excused from following any of the rules intended to protect water, air, and wildlife.   On Monday night, cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma gazetted the first set of regulations under the national state of disaster around electricity. Read More amaBhungane | Construction mafias, corruption, your water: Govt turns to courts to get taps running The DWS's Sean Phillips spoke to amaBhungane about why so many municipalities can't seem to get basic water and sanitation right, what the department intends to do about it, and why people with AK-47s are turning up on construction sites. Big batteries will negate need for gas power in SA, industry chair says SA won't need gas-fired power plants, as battery storage linked to renewable power plants is already cheaper, according to the chairperson of an industry association. 'Highest level of disdain': Scopa chair slams SOEs over late financials Scopa chair Mkhuleko Hlengwa says "something is rotten" in the kingdom of state-owned enterprises. Glencore ordered to pay R13 billion in bribery case Glencore was ordered by a federal judge in New York to pay $700 million (R13 billion) as a criminal punishment for a global bribery scheme orchestrated by the Swiss-based commodities trading and mining giant. Power cuts could knock 15% off production, Sibanye-Stillwater warns Eskom's worsening power generation performance outlook could adversely impact Sibanye-Stillwater's gold and platinum operations this year. Tongaat business rescue plan now due at the end of March Tongaat Hulett's business rescue practitioners say that the company's creditors have signed off on an extension of the publication of a business rescue plan to the end of March. DOWNLOAD THE NEWS24 APP CONNECT WITH US

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