A culmination of factors, including violent intimidation, is responsible for South Africa seeing some of its worst load shedding on record, says public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.
Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter says the power utility could be forced to introduce stage 6 load shedding on Tuesday evening (28 June) due to a significant deterioration of its operations overnight.
South Africa’s power utility said most of its workforce is in place, despite some ongoing demonstrations that started last week after a breakdown in wage negotiations, though generation capacity has yet to improve.
As South Africa faces a week of extended stage 4 load shedding, there is some good news on the electricity generation front, as Eskom has announced several winning bids for independent power producers (IPPs), say economists at the Bureau of…
Unlawful industrial action at various Eskom power stations has impacted planned maintenance and repairs, and at some stations, the full complement of workers has not reported for duty. As a result, stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented,...
Due to the ongoing unprotected labour action, Eskom says it has been compelled to take precautionary actions to conserve emergency generation reserves.
Power utility Eskom says it has experienced protests at nine of its power stations and other operating facilities over the past 24 hours, by some of its employees who have embarked on unprotected strike action following a deadlock in wage…
Eskom has warned of a move to stage 3 load shedding or higher should it continue to see further breakdowns in its coal fleets.
Eskom has announced extended load shedding following breakdowns at a number of its power units.
Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be introduced this evening.
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