{"id":44188,"date":"2026-08-31T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44188"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:02:05","slug":"sas-eskom-reports-second-consecutive-profitable-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-eskom-reports-second-consecutive-profitable-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Eskom reports second consecutive profitable year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) state power utility Eskom \u200bon Monday reported its second \u200cconsecutive annual profit, citing sustained operational recovery, higher tariffs and cost \u200bdiscipline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Eskom said it made \u200bprofit after tax of $1.88 billion in \u200bthe year ended March 2026, \u200bmore than double the restated 14.0 billion rand it posted for the \u200bprior 12 months, which \u200bwas its first profit in eight years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The power \u200ccuts \u2060that have held back Africa&#8217;s biggest economy for more than a decade have become \u200bmuch less \u200bfrequent. \u2060<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The utility said it implemented power cuts \u200bon just four days \u200bin \u2060the financial year, compared with 13 days a year earlier \u2060and \u200ba record 329 \u200bdays in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22336,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-44188","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Eskom \u200bon Monday reported its second \u200cconsecutive annual profit","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44189,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44188\/revisions\/44189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}