Last week, a violent strike pushed SA's ageing, creaking power infrastructure over the edge, plunging the country into stage 6 load-shedding, or blackouts of up to 12 hours a day. It’s costing the economy billions, and individuals their livelihoods. in ...
In March 2020, just a few weeks after André de Ruyter took the reins at Eskom, he issued a prescient warning. “The time for an intervention is now,” he said. “If we do nothing, stage 8 [load-shedding] will be a regular event by June 2021.”
De Ruyter’s plea was unequivocal: add another 4,000MW-6,000MW to the grid urgently to allow Eskom to do vital maintenance on its ageing power plants, like those at Kendal, Duvha and Tutuka...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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