Begging bowls and breakdowns as Eskom teeters

Utility in crisis with bill to fix Medupi soaring by half a billion rands

22 May 2022 - 00:00 By TANKISO MAKHETHA and ALEX PATRICK

As SA lurched to stage 4 load-shedding yesterday, it emerged that stricken power utility Eskom will need almost R600m more to rectify design defects at its R135bn Medupi power station...

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