Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says the power utility is facing two decades of unattended maintenance. Briefing the media yesterday, de Ruyter accused his predecessors of delaying the introduction of the Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme for a number of years. He says currently there was an additional 200 Mega Watts of power available from independent power producers, but contractually they are being prevented from feeding this into the grid, due to government regulations. Yesterday Eskom implemented stage 4 load-shedding after its Majuba unit 5 and Tutuka unit 4 tripped. For more on this, Elvis Presslin spoke to former Eskom CEO, Mr. Matshela Koko