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Eskom will be left with customers who can't afford high electricity prices and those who aren't paying says Prof. Mamphweli.

Bruce Whitfield interviews Professor Sampson Mamphweli, Director of the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies at Stellenbosch University.

This week, Eskom ramped up power cuts to Stage 4 due to a "sudden outage" of three Kendal power station units.Just how broken is our power utility and what is its future? Prof. Sampson Mamphweli, Director - Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies, SU Professor Sampson believes that the opening up of the electricity supply market could lead to a death spiral for the power utility.

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