'Mr Fixit' rides to Medupi's rescue

05 January 2016 - 02:39
By Graeme Hosken

South Africans have a new superhero on whom they can pin their hopes. He is Phillip Dukashe, who has in the past helped avert power blackouts that would have been devastating, and he has been appointed acting project director for Medupi power station.Medupi has become Eskom's Achilles heel, with labour unrest and shoddy workmanship delaying the bringing online of its generators by 20 months.

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