Sikonathi Mantshantsha, a fierce media critic of Eskom, has been appointed as the company’s new national spokesman.
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Eskom will extend its strategy of trimming top executive positions to include lower ranking managers and finally the general workforce, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Eskom again implemented load shedding, at stage 2, on Monday.
Eskom is considering a new operating model to move responsibility down the chain of command as the financially strapped utility seeks to cut costs and improve efficiency.
Eskom’s coal stockpile situation has deteriorated further, with five power stations having less than 10 days’ stock.
Eskom on Monday night narrowly averted load shedding despite a decline in peak energy demand compared to 2007 and the addition of more than 7.5GW of installed generation capacity over the last decade.
Eskom implemented rolling blackouts across the country on Tuesday as an ongoing protest over wages curbed electricity generation.
Protests at some South African power stations amid deadlocked wage talks are stopping coal from getting to plants and threaten to force the country’s electricity provider to implement rolling blackouts.
State-owned power utility Eskom resumed rolling blackouts Friday after protesting employees blocked others from working and interfered with the electricity grid. Eskom, which generates almost all of the nation’s
Eskom confirmed just before 6pm on Thursday that it has been forced to implement stage-one load shedding. This is due to a strike by the utility’s workers which has involved “acts of intimidation and sabotage”. Spokesman