Eskom woes: SA on the brink of total darkness
CEO André de Ruyter might be doing his best, but the disarray at Eskom’s power stations is so far gone that it seems to be a miracle SA has any electricity at all. Sabelo Skiti looks at the perennial problem of load-shedding
06 June 2021 - 00:01
On Wednesday night this week only one of Eskom’s 17 power stations was operating at full capacity. That’s not even the scariest part...
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