A Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… [2] In 1891, Johannesburg was electrified and by the early 1900s, most large cities in the country had electricity. [3] … was the principal generator of electricity in the early 1900s. It was started by Cecil John Rhodes in 1906 (himself a … substantial profits”. [8] In this early period, the 1900s, South Africa was generating more electricity than the …