Public Enterprises, National Treasury and Eskom digging deep for diesel money

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Eskom reported it's burned through almost R12 billion worth of diesel, double the amount it budgeted for this year.

CAPE TOWN - The public enterprises department says it's working with National Treasury and Eskom to urgently find the money to buy more diesel.

South Africans have been warned that power cuts would persist during the holiday season, and well into the new year.

 

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Do they realise yet why they should have maintained the coal-fired power stations? Instead of unreliable, weather dependant generators nuclear generation would have been possible. This country is been severely hampered because of political correctness, incompetence and corruption

A little too late. You have done all the damage seems possible and doomed this country. VoetsekANC arrest and prosecute those responsible.

Why don't they check the Couches.?

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