New power stations for SA

South Africa will get six new power stations worth R1.3 trillion in an effort to eradicate power cuts, the SABC reported on Thursday.

China, France and South Korea would help in the construction of the proposed new stations, the energy department's director general Nelisiwe Magubane said.

The power stations, which formed part of the government's new proposed energy plan, would use "different technology".

"[We] need them to re-look at the whole research projects. But in the meantime we are still going to need additional power plants and we are going to use what we call conventional nuclear power as we use it in Koeberg, in Cape Town," she told the broadcaster.