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'Our timing was flawed in electricity crisis'

Cape Argus: "President Thabo Mbeki has admitted that the the government got its timing wrong managing the electricity crisis.

Public Enterprise Minister Alec Erwin told a media briefing in Pretoria on Friday: 'The decision to charge Eskom with the responsibility to embark on a large and urgent build programme in 2004 was in hindsight late. The president has accepted that this government got its timing wrong.'"

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