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Eskom told Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts that it was targeting suppliers mentioned in the Zondo report
CHRIS YELLAND

Eskom’s head of generation quits amid load-shedding crisis

The state utility’s generation division is central to the country’s energy crisis as its ageing coal fleet has caused South Africans to put up with 15 years of intermittent…

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
In a country where electricity is essential for daily life, it is fast becoming a privilege rather than a right in South Africa. (David Harrison)
ANDRE DE RUYTER

Load-shedding set to continue for the rest of the week

No load-shedding for flood-hit eThekwini metro, because the area is not consuming its daily average of 1 600MW of power

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Eskom is using nine million litres of diesel a day to run its gas turbines, which come into operation as an emergency measure amid generation capacity failures.
BRITAIN

Three more stages may be added to load-shedding if Eskom runs out of diesel at gas turbines

Fuel prices have soared in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, putting South Africa’s power supply at risk

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read