HILARY JOFFE: Eskom disaster sets clock ticking for downgrade

28 July 2019 - 00:11 By Hilary Joffe

Eskom is due to announce its annual financial results this week. They will be dire - but not as dire as they would have been had the government not agreed to hand over almost R130bn of taxpayers' cash to the power utility over the next couple of years...

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