Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says it will take a lot longer to fix the damage done by 10 years of capture and corruption. The embattled power utility has been struggling for a long time to keep South Africa’s lights on.
Since President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national lockdown announcement, the country has not experienced any load-shedding.
Eskom says it is using this time of decreased electricity demand, due to the lockdown, to perform critical short-term maintenance. SA Lockdown: Eskom doubles maintenance due to low demand
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Date: 30 March 2020Power generation system able to meet low lockdown demand pic.twitter.com/mM4UODJ7HJ
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“We think we will be able to emerge from this lockdown period with a fleet in which we have better reliability and predictability.
Having said that, we still have a lot of work to do to catch up with 10 years of neglect that needs to be repaired”, he said. Eskom has said it does not expect to implement load-shedding for the duration of the national lockdown.
In other news – Twitter makes fun of Amanda Black’s new house
With everything going on in the world right now, it’s easy to get despondent but one celebrity decided to make sure they used April 1st to make people laugh. Award-winning musician Amanda Black took to Twitter to announce that she had bought a “new house” on Wednesday.
However, the house in question has been posted before by others who have also claimed it as their own. Posting pictures of the two-story house, Amanda simply attached the #GirlswithHomes hashtag to the post. Read more
Source: eNCA
