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Outgoing Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has rejected demands to spare hospitals, schools, small businesses and others from load-shedding as technically impossible.

ByOutgoing Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has rejected demands to spare hospitals, schools, small businesses and others from load-shedding as technically impossible and a potential recipe for “monumental and

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