Blackouts in the New Year
JOHANNESBURG - Our 3-week respite from rolling blackouts is over.
On2 January Eskom announced the return of Stage 3 blackouts.
It blamed this on setbacks in its maintenance programme.
Three units with generation capacity of over 2,000 megawatts were not returned to service.
Energy analyst Hartmut Winkler believes ending power cuts completely will take another five years.
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