Southern Africa: Eskom Power Crisis Keeps Zimbabwe in the Dark

10 December 2019

Zimbabwe's hopes for an improvement in power supply have been dashed following a major setback in power generation at South Africa's utility company, Eskom due to a reported technical challenge.

Eskom, which supplies 400 Megawatts (MW) to Zimbabwe, has since beginning of this week experienced unplanned breakdowns due to flooding which hit Pretoria and surrounding areas affecting some of its production units and resulting in close to 14 000MW being shed from its South African power grid.

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