YOU were only able to tuck into your golden brown turkey and other treats this Christmas because Eskom dipped deep into its emergency reserves to supplement its capacity over the festive season. That Eskom is in the red going into 2020 is not comforting.
But it has been that sort of year for the state owned enterprise, saddled with debt of about R500billion and ageing power stations. Rolling blackouts, especially in the last quarter of the year, were as frequent as raisins in a Christmas pudding. In this time, Eskom said system malfunctions and “wet coal” were largely the reason South Africa was thrust into darkness when load shedding hit “Stage 6” on December 9 - the first time when 6000 megawatts was taken off the national grid
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