SA feels wrath of Kusile’s dark dawn as energy crisis bites hard

The power station has contributed in crippling SA's winter energy generation capacity

21 May 2023 - 20:02

Mpumalanga's Kusile power station should have relieved South Africa's energy generation pressures in 2013. However, a decade later it finds itself among the causes of the country's crippling winter energy woes...

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