Power utility Eskom has announced that load shedding will be pushed to stage 4 at 18h00 on Tuesday (4 October) until further notice.
Eskom’s newly-appointed chairperson Mpho Makwana says that the board needs one to two months to conduct an “onboarding programme” before he can confidently comment on any plans to resolve South Africa’s energy crisis.
Power utility Eskom says that is launching an investigation into the conduct of one of its employees after the shutdown of Camden Power Station due to demineralised water contamination last week.
As South Africa faces yet another week of load-shedding, the country’s energy crisis is worsening at a dangerous speed when you compare South Africa’s energy data over the past decade.
The City of Cape Town has issued a new tender that will see customers being rewarded for voluntarily reducing their power usage at a certain time when the City's power generation is constrained.
South Africa, which has been experiencing energy shortages since 2008, is in the throes of its worst power cuts on record as breakdowns at state-owned utility Eskom Holdings'plants reach unprecedented levels.
South African billionaire Rob Hersov says that the national power utility Eskom is run by a mafia, and massive changes are needed in order to get the lights back on.
Amid rolling blackouts continuing for a record-long period, halting GDP growth and disrupting day-to-day life for many South Africans - Eskom's workers have been awarded a pay raise.
Power utility Eskom has moved to clear up confusion around group CEO Andre de Ruyter's warning of stage 15 load shedding in South Africa.
Power utility Eskom says that stage 4 load shedding will continue until the weekend, with stage 3 continuing thereafter.
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