Dec 13 (Reuters) - South Africa's struggling state power company Eskom said on Wednesday it made a 1.6 billion rand ($84 million) profit after tax in the first six months of its financial year to the end of September.

The debt-laden utility has this year implemented the worst power cuts on record in Africa's most industrialised economy.

"Eskom cautions that despite achieving a profit in the first six months, an after-tax loss of 23.2 billion rand is expected by the end of the financial year," it added in a statement.

Eskom cited poor generating plant performance, tariffs which it says do not allow it to fully recover its costs, high debt servicing costs and non-payment by some customers among reasons for the projected full-year loss.

($1 = 19.0557 rand)

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-eskom-makes-h1-profit-sees-full-year-loss-2023-12-13/