How Eskom crippled Kusile

Here’s who we can thank for two stages of load-shedding

26 February 2023 - 00:05

Eskom managers overruled engineers at Kusile power station, ordering them to run a unit at full capacity, which led to a catastrophic incident that is still costing the country more than two stages of load-shedding...

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