Local firms freed from Eskom cuts

Coercive blackouts banned as businesses step in to save dorps

17 January 2021 - 00:10 By CHRIS BARRON

Piet le Roux, CEO of business interest organisation Sakeliga, says that for at least five years businesses in towns across SA have had their power deliberately cut off by Eskom through no fault of their own...

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