Kgosientsho Ramokgopa takes aim at Eskom detractors

Ramokgopa confirmed the utility managed to reduce unplanned outages by 4,000MW since April 26 as a result of planned maintenance.While he heaped praise on Eskom staff and said the utility’s turnaround was “orchestrated” rather than sudden, he also used his briefing to take aim at its naysayers. One of those seems to be former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, who recently claimed Eskom was able to keep the lights on by “pouring money into diesel at a rate of knots”, according to News24. Ramokgopa denied this, sharing figures that showed that the utility burned diesel at a lower…