Kusile power station ‘on course to deliver by next December’
THE twin concrete structures can be seen protruding into the sky from behind the hills from 40km away, against a background of the golden highveld grass in winter.The chimney structures rise up higher than 120m.As you get closer, many more concrete and steel structures come into view, seemingly in a race for a better view of the outlying towns.During the two days that the Business Day team took to tour Kusile power station under construction in eMalahleni, east of Pretoria, workers in protective gear busily went about their job of spending the R120bn that state-owned electricity supplier Eskom has budgeted for the construction of the 4,800MW coal-fired power station.Even the security guards manning the three entrances to the site were so busy that they were oblivious to the presence of uninvited and unaccompanied journalists on the edges of the construction site.That allowed us to film and tour the site for a full hour before anyone could detect our unwelcome presence.When a securit...
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