Power utility Eskom has denied claims that Zimbabwe had
been connecting electricity illegally.
This comes after an article was published on satire website
Ihlaya News, reporting that the struggling state owned entity had "just
discovered that Zimbabwe had been connecting electricity illegally for
years."
"To set the record straight, Eskom has neither
recorded shortfalls in its international power reconciliation nor investigated
the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA). Energy consumption is
accounted through a comprehensive reconciliation process and is independently
audited on a regular basis," said Eskom in a statement released on
Thursday.
Reports of the illegal connections surfaced as loadshedding
in South Africa continues. President Cyril Ramaphosa, who cut short a trip to
Egypt to deal with the crisis, said on Wednesday Eskom will work to stabilise
the power grid by the end of March.
In addition to heavy rain, he also blamed suspected
sabotage at power stations, which contributed 2 000 megawatts (MW) of lost
capacity during the past week's outages and said that needed to be
investigated.
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