Lower power import causes outages
Monday, March 03, 2014
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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