Lower power import causes outages

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Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources (MEWR) Kitso Mokaila has said his ministry is working to ensure all four units at the Morupule B Power Plant are up and running in time for winter.

This comes after last week’s fresh wave of power outages which the minister said was a result of reduced imports from South Africa.

Mokaila was on Friday giving an update to Parliament on the Morupule B Power Station. The country is dealing with the nationwide power outages, which, in some areas, lasted over 12 hours.

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