South Africa’s national treasury is seeking to hire a legal firm to advise it on how to reorganize the $24bln debt burden held by national power utility Eskom Holdings SOC. The development may indicate more urgency by the country’s government to resolve the crisis at Eskom, which is holding back the economy and damaging the popularity of the ruling African National Congress. South Africa is currently experiencing its worst-ever power cuts after a pay strike halted many of its plants and interrupted maintenance.