[ON AIR] Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter and board members meet with Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA).

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De Ruyter: During State capture, Eskom academy of learning was neglected.
De Ruyter: We are receiving good support from the national Treasury and we have good relations.
De Ruyter: We have done extensive planned maintenance during this summer.
De Ruyter: This planned maintenance will unfortunately bring loadshedding.
De Ruyter: We need to maintain our reserves in order to protect our system.
De Ruyter: Instead of focusing on the base load we should pay attention to peak times.
De Ruyter: We regret that corruption is not only external by also exists internally.
De Ruyter: We have done technical work on our power plants.
De Ruyter: The 9200 available megawatts will continue to grow as new capacity comes online.
De Ruyter: The risk of loadshedding will be reduced in the next 18 months.

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