The power cuts are set to begin on Saturday evening from 9pm until 5am on Monday morning.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will spend the rest of the first weekend of December under interrupted power supply after Eskom announced stage 2 load shedding on Saturday.
The power utility said the power cuts were due to a failure of generation units at the Kusile, Medupi and Arnot power stations as well as the delay of the return of a unit at Tutuka power station.Due to generation capacity constraints, Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 21:00 tonight until 05:00 on Monday morning pic.twitter.com/ksc6RSDqIj
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