In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa and Eskom will avoid a ‘dark Christmas’
No load shedding will occur between 17 December 2019 and 13 January 2020. This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa. Speaking to media in…
Eskom’s crisis escalates: Stage 6 load shedding will strike South Africa tonight
Update, 10pm Monday 9 December: Eskom “unreservedly apologised” on Monday evening for implementing Stage 6 load shedding. It announced that from 10pm, Stage 4…
Flooding reported across Gauteng and Mpumalanga as the rain continues to fall
Update, 10am, Tuesday 10 December: The South African Weather Service on Tuesday issued further warnings and watches for potential flooding across Gauteng, Mpumalanga and…
Unavailable capacity: Charting Eskom’s load shedding week from hell
Before the current bout of load shedding, Memeburn’s last article about the Eskom crisis was published in mid-November. Back then, I thought it would…
