man: eskom is a 100% state-owned company, so the government owns eskom. eskom d does support, you know, like, the coal industry. the big portion of our e energy generation is babased, you know, like, on c coal. there's been--- it's's called a a [indistincnct] symbiotic relationship betetween the coal-mining industry and eskom. let me put it this way: about 70% ofof the energy requiremenent in south africa ae met through coal. i think, uh, the simple fact is that we'vee got it, it's in abundance. we still have probably 200 more years of coal, youou know, liki, in the ground. woman: is it immoral to open yet another onone in an area like highveld that's clearly got extraordinary levels of pollution on a local level? mashigo: yeah,h, what you need o realize, as i mentioion, i mean, on average over the e past 10 years, coal production in south africa has remained fairly stablele, between 250 and 260 million tons per annum. as in when you open new mines, other mines are closing down. man: coal, for the last hundred years or so, has really powered the economy.

has decided to implement power cuts to municipalities that failed to pay for the electricity supply eskom has long been struggling to keep the lights on in the country now the utility is taking tough measures. as film security employees are breaking down a gate where a newly installed transformer is located using its delivering free electricity to hundreds of people living in the deep slow township north of johannesburg there is outrage amongst the residents and it lets you get a good lead let the cook never let out of the bit i have a problem here at our shacks we live in a dark place and criminals take advantage and break into our properties. we try to install a tricity so that we can see at night that children and women are being raped at night but why does the government not pity us we are unable to do anything about it i know what one of them for and the real crime is the illegal connection which interferes with eskom infrastructure. obviously if you're not going to get eat it. in an informal. or eat it to begin to they didn't even say that it tends to be. we will continue to do our

where this economy was built on mining in any cheese and eskom in my ability to give our energy the ever wes and. the economy and together with the corruption says rumi see that because it double edged sword to with there was corruption and as a lesson on one side on the other side there was just a collapse of institution due to state in a couple and lack of capabilities and then of course we have unemployment which has soared to 30 percent but that was going up before the coronavirus pandemic taking rat into account where do you see the country headed. the country is facing huge challenges we expect with a corporate 19 and implemented often a couple who should be about 40 percent which probably will be among the highest among leaders income countries and many people have been pushed into formality and in the process often for muddy choose their own social pathologies because you could be unemployed and they cannot scrape through. and other forms of violence increases that is why is that offer you guys one of the hi pam arrayed countries but also very vibrant countries in the world.

south africa's ailing state run power company eskom hasa suspended the monitors of 2 power stations it blames for exacerbating breakdowns that led to widespread power outages the firm announced it would reduce power cuts to to know where to mont and improved whether for years eskom has struggled to manage the flight from coal fired plants. german pharmaceutical company cure voc is to receive more than 250000000 euros to develop a coronavirus vaccine the german ministry for education research approved the funding care package is among a small number of companies using an r. and a technology experts say it could live rock but inoculation on a larger scale than traditional forms of sox nation. u.s. job growth slowed again in august as many american households find themselves without financial assistance from the government just under 1400000 jobs were added in august about 2 thirds of july's figures. job losses mounted faster in the u.s. than anywhere else at the beginning of the pandemic. there were also supposed to rebound quickly. that's the benefit of a flexible labor market where hir

the real crime is the illegal connection which interferes with eskom infrastructure. for this if you're not going to get even with the police in an informal. or even it's easy to be convinced they didn't need to even say that it tends to be a good to be mean we continue to do our best to do because they can we know that if they persist in. excessive usage of electricity resulting from illegal connections overloads transformers the result outages can last for days and leave all homes traffic lights and to businesses in the area without power. severe outages have been weighing on africa's 2nd largest economy. the electricity problems have even factored into decisions by readings agencies to downgrade south africa's debt moody's move the country to junk status earlier this year. of a more let's bring in detail the correspondent ellis who is joining me from take town. ellis 1st of all i mean this is a problem the has been ongoing why is electricity supply in south africa such an issue. look crazy as you say has been going on for a long time and we need to go back to send

south africa's ailing state run power company eskom hasa suspended the monitors of 2 power stations it blames for exacerbating breakdowns that led to widespread power outages the firm announced it would reduce power cuts to to know where to mont and improved whether for years eskom has struggled to manage the flight from aging coal fired plants. and german pharmaceutical company cure back is to receive more than 250000000 euros to develop a coronavirus vaccine the german ministry for education and research approved the funding care package is among a small number of companies using an r. and a technology experts say it could allow rapid inoculation on a larger scale than traditional forms of vaccination. u.s. job growth slowed again in august as many american households find themselves without financial assistance from the government just under 1400000 jobs were added in august about 2 thirds of july's figures. job losses mounted faster in the us than anywhere else at the beginning of the pandemic. they were also supposed to rebound quickly so that's the benefit of a flexible labor mar

global impact of the pandemic coupled with the recent return of power cuts by ailing state utility eskom would hamper an economic recovery for costs are that it will take south africa a very long time to get back to preplan demick levels. all right and for more on this i'm joined by correspondent ellis fun from cape town good to see you minus 51 percent is a pretty big number you're there tell me what does this actually look like what is the economic reality of life there. well what i see me here in cape town is a lot of restaurants closing. these closing hotels closing because one of the other sectors that has been hits a lot is tourism and western cape may be where i am the province is relying a lot interest and lot of me people making a living out of that and although a lot of restrictions have been eased and we are not seeing international travel is back they're not allowed to there's not international flights possible so so that's not a sector that is bad hits and while now we see that of course in the mining sector is it's going back a little bit to business as usual and production

global impact of the pandemic coupled with the recent return of power cuts by ailing state utility eskom would hamper an economic recovery before costs are that it will take south africa a very long time to get back to preplan demick levels. are right and for more on this i'm joined by correspondent ellis fun gelder from cape town good to see you minus 51 percent is a pretty big number you're there tell me what does this actually look like what is the economic reality of life there. well what i see me here in a cape town is a lot of restaurants closing and v.m. these closing hotels closing because one of the other sectors that has been hits a lot is strong and the western cape may be where i am the province is relying a lot and tourists and out of me people making a living out of that and although a lot of restrictions have been eased and we are not seeing international travel is back they're not allowed to there's not international flights possible so so that's another sector that is bad hits and while now we see that of course in the mining sector it's it's going back a little bit to b