Eskom gives Zimbabwe month-end deadline to pay up

Eskom said on Monday that it had given the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) until the end on this month to honour its increasing debt or it would be forced to cut electricity supply to that country. Zimbabwe owes the South African power utility R603-million, of which R119-million is outstanding arrears. The amount has increased from R443-million that ZESA owed Eskom for power supply as at December 2016.