Platinum price breaks through 2,000 dollars for first time

LONDON (AFP)


South African energy group Eskom has said that its power supply would be kept at only 90 percent of full capacity until 2012.

Large parts of South Africa have intermittently been plunged into darkness since late last year as Eskom imposes planned blackouts to conserve dwindling electricity supplies.

The commercial capital Johannesburg has been hardest hit, and analysts have warned of foreign investors taking flight as everything from factory production to traffic regulation has been affected.

AFP