South Africa's finance ministry has appointed a consultant to come up with a plan by August to allow utility Eskom to accept billions in loans designed to help it cut its carbon emissions when the government has blocked it from taking on new debt.
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The theoretically obvious solution of the treasury making an exception and giving permission would require complex recalculations and more parliamentary procedures, a top government official, not authorised to speak to media, said. It said it was in regular contact with the international donors and would present a report on solutions by August.on record, with electricity supply shortfalls leading to daily, hours-long planned power outages.
Rudi Dicks, the head of project management at the South African presidency, said there was a need to "clarify as a matter of urgency" whether the international loans could be accepted.
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