As an interview, it could not have been more blunt. Energy writer Chris Yelland had called Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha: “I have just contacted the Eskom spokesperson by phone and received the following clear answers in respect of Eskom diesel supplies for the emergency diesel-driven open cycle gas turbines [OCGTs] at Gourikwa and Ankerlig,” Yelland wrote on Twitter on Sunday. He then ran the interview: 

Question: “Has diesel for the Eskom OCGTs run out?”..

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