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Kyle Cowan | 3 things to be done today to help fix Eskom and bring load shedding to an end faster

Kyle Cowan

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The scale of the challenges facing Eskom are massive, and the solutions to fixing some of those problems are just as complex, technical, and costly, writes the author. Photo: Gallo Images/ALAMY

The scale of the challenges facing Eskom are massive, and the solutions to fixing some of those problems are just as complex, technical, and costly, writes the author. Photo: Gallo Images/ALAMY

Eskom has major problems that can be succinctly categorised into three crisis points: time, money and generation capacity. While it's easy to criticise, the reality is that the utility is not being given the right help. Here are three things that need to change today to help Eskom fix itself, and end loadshedding faster, writes Kyle Cowan.

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Tebogo Khaas | Electricity catastrophe: Bleak future on cards for battered small businesses

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