Eskom has said that repairing damage to a flue gas duct at the still-unfinished Kusile power station could take months.
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The facility will now be transformed into a wind and solar energy production site, the state-owned utility said.
South Africa will need to build solar and wind plants at a blistering pace – almost nine times faster than it previously has – over the next decade.
Eskom will suspend load shedding at midnight on Friday, and will only resume the rotational power cuts again on Monday.
Telkom has appointed Naidene Ford-Hoon, a former chief financial officer of the Reserve Bank, to its board.
About 53GW of new energy generation capacity must be built in the next 10 years to ensure energy security, Eskom said.
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