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/ 22 January 2008

Eskom pulls plug on SA’s neighbours

South Africa’s neighbours are feeling the pinch of Eskom’s problems as they are plunged into darkness and face power failures of their own. Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all reported power failures and their governments have had to move quickly to clarify the reliability of future power supplies.

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/ 2 January 2008

Eskom: Power capacity will be strained in 2008

Power capacity will be strained in 2008 but gas-turbine stations and the reopening of old stations will help to deal with the load, Eskom said on Wednesday. Sipho Neke from the Eskom media desk said the maintenance of Eskom’s generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure would continue until the end of summer.