Staffing at root of Eskom chaos

16 February 2020 - 00:04 By SHAMIL ISMAIL

Since early December last year, Eskom has had to implement load-shedding, mainly due to unplanned outages, but while the utility has blamed inadequate maintenance and ageing power stations, it is rather shortages of technical staff that seem to be the cause...

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