Environment Digest 7: From droughts to floods: Is there a going back to normal?
Environment Digest 7
2019 ED
Environment Digest 6: Shedding Light on Eskom’s Unbundling
Eskom is the largest producer of electricity on the African continent, and is amongst the world’s top utilities in terms of power generation capacity. It owns and operates a number of coal-fired, gas-fired, hydro-electric and pumped-storage power stations, and one nuclear power station.
Environment Digest 5: “National disaster”: the recent drought period
South Africa is a largely dry country, with considerable climate and topographical variation. Under normal circumstances, the south western part of the country receives its main rainfall in winter; the southern coast receives rainfall throughout the year; and majority of the rainfall is received in summer in the eastern and northern parts of the country.