JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African state power utility's chief executive André de Ruyter has resigned, the country's government-owned public broadcaster SABC and local news outlet News24 reported on Wednesday. The utility, whose ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations is prone to faults, has struggled to meet electricity demand in Africa's most industrialised nation for more than a decade. It ramped up scheduled power cuts a week ago to "Stage 6", repeating the worst outage level on record and putting further strain on households and businesses. Stage 6 power cuts require up to 6,000 megawatts to be shed from the national grid and mean at least six hours a day without power for most South Africans. (Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian Writing by James Macharia Chege;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

Source: News 24 December 14, 2022 14:26 UTC