Dlamini Zuma says there needs to be a proper diagnosis of what is wrong at Eskom

Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma at the Good Governance
& Accountability Seminar that took place at the Durban International
Convention Centre yesterday. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo A
frican News Agency (ANA)

Durban - Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma yesterday called on Eskom to be transparent about why it was lurching from one crisis to the next.

On Sunday the power utility’s CEO André de Ruyter said Stage 6 load shedding had been implemented as the system had been under pressure last week as Kriel unit 2 had tripped and Kusile unit 3 was coming back from a submerged scraper chain failure.

By late yesterday, Eskom announced that load shedding would move to Stage 5 at midnight, saying units at Camden, Kriel, Kusile and Kendal had been returned to service, although a unit at Duvha had developed a boiler tube leak.

Dlamini Zuma, who was speaking at the Good Governance & Accountability Seminar that took place at the Durban International Convention Centre yesterday, said the country had emerged from the Covid-19 crisis but the Eskom crisis was similar in that it had a devastating impact on the country’s economy.

By Kuben Chetty.

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