Eskom crisis: Why the lights keep going out in South Africa
In this post I will be talking about the Eskom crisis: Why the lights keep going out in South Africa published by BBC on February 15, 2019. I decided to write about this post because I was attracted to the news headline containing South Africa which is where my parents grew up and where I lived for a few years. " Eskom is one of the biggest power utilities in the world" being that it is in South Africa which is the biggest industrialized parts in Africa poses a huge threat. This article tells us why it is a threat and tells us why South Africa has these power cuts. It is not new to South Africa that these power cuts happen however it is new that they are happening so often now. Eskom has been forced to load shed which is a process to avoid excessive load on the huge generating plant and this is hurting the country in many ways like reducing business productivity and overall hurting the economy at large. I think this article is good to read because it shows