Police arrested two senior ex-managers at Eskom and a number of other suspects over allegations of fraud, corruption and money laundering at the Kusile power plant.
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Eleven years after construction started on Eskom’s massive 4.8GW Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, not one of its six 800MW generator units is currently delivering power into the grid.
Two new coal-fired power plants being built in South Africa are “badly designed and badly constructed”, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday.
Eskom is facing a mounting repair bill at two new coal-fired power stations that are still under construction, compounding its already dire financial situation.