The South African Energy Crisis is an ongoing period when South Africa experiences widespread rolling blackouts as supply fell behind demand, threatening to destabilize the national grid. It began in the later months of 2007

The South African Energy Crisis is an ongoing period when South Africa experiences widespread rolling blackouts as supply fell behind demand, threatening to destabilize the national grid. It began in the later months of 2007. The government owned national power utility and primary power generator, Eskom, and various parliamentarians attributed these rolling-blackouts to insufficient generation capacity.

The old woman and the cats. Bruyckere, Berlinde de & J. M. Coetzee (2013). ISBN 978-1-86888-900-6. All Autobiography is Autre-biography", David Atwell, in Selves in Question: Interviews on South African Auto/biography, ed. Judith Lütge Coullie et al. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006), 213–218.

David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist . Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's writing reconstructs and critiques some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present.

South Africa is facing an electricity crisis as the country's power utility struggles to meet demand. The power cuts are being blamed on poor maintenance practices stretching back many years. Nomsa Maseko reports.

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Coetzee left South Africa several years ago for what some called . South Africa is such an unliterary country.

Coetzee left South Africa several years ago for what some called self-imposed exile after a bruising clash with the ruling African National Congress over his novel Disgrace. The daughter of the central character, like Coetzee a white academic, is raped by three black men, but declines to prosecute, partly because of colonial guilt. The majority of books are imported at very high price books are seen as luxury items.

South Africa has evolved as an attractive target for the enterprises from China, Brazil, and Russia all having considerable expertise in mining exploration, extraction, and processing. Since the publication in 2007 of a report on West Africa's role in the illegal cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe, considerable media attention has focused on Guinea-Bissau in particular as a country infiltrated by drug interests.