Eskom flickers as strike piles on misery

26 March 2015 - 02:15

By Graeme Hosken, Bianca Capazorio, Linda Ensor and Shaun Smillie

Electricity utility Eskom was staring down the barrel yesterday amid a leadership struggle, a construction workers' strike at its flagship power station and another round of power cuts as the government revealed that load-shedding was costing the economy tens of billions of rands a month. Yesterday, construction at the multibillion rand Medupi power station was brought to a halt by a strike.

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