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Published by: Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand
Published in: 2008
Length: 6 pages
Data source: Field research

Abstract

In May 2008, Johannesburg''s Sandton City shopping complex was on the road to recovery from its experience that January, when it was hit hardest of all shopping centres in the country by Eskom''s random power cuts. Sandton City General Manager, Gary Vipond, and Dorcas Ledwaba, the Director of Property Management at Liberty Life Properties, which owns the complex, had managed to find ways of saving electricity, and had put a solution in place involving generators and inverters. Planned power cuts had taken place for a short period in April, but Eskom had since announced that it would cease planned power cuts and would try to provide continuous power. Yet the two knew that the electricity situation was still critical. They wondered whether the short-term solutions they had implemented would serve the shopping complex effectively until 2014, when Eskom envisaged being on track again.
Industry:
Size:
Small
Other setting(s):
May 2008

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Abstract

In May 2008, Johannesburg''s Sandton City shopping complex was on the road to recovery from its experience that January, when it was hit hardest of all shopping centres in the country by Eskom''s random power cuts. Sandton City General Manager, Gary Vipond, and Dorcas Ledwaba, the Director of Property Management at Liberty Life Properties, which owns the complex, had managed to find ways of saving electricity, and had put a solution in place involving generators and inverters. Planned power cuts had taken place for a short period in April, but Eskom had since announced that it would cease planned power cuts and would try to provide continuous power. Yet the two knew that the electricity situation was still critical. They wondered whether the short-term solutions they had implemented would serve the shopping complex effectively until 2014, when Eskom envisaged being on track again.

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Industry:
Size:
Small
Other setting(s):
May 2008

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