Eskom has warned that the inclement weather will affect the power grid, but South Africans aren't buying that as an excuse for outages across the country.
Eskom has issued a warning of potential power outages across the country, but citizens believe it's an excuse. Gianluigi Guercia.The power utility also announced multiple faults in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State and that it would try to restore power as quickly as possible.“Two or three bad days of weather and that brings down our entire electrical grid? Okay, so things have not improved with Eskom. They have been lying this entire time then.
”“Bring back load shedding please. Some of us have load reduction every day, so bringing back load shedding, everyone will feel what we are feeling with this reduction.”Byron Pillay is a Current Affairs Editor at Briefly News. He received a Diploma in Journalism from the Caxton Cadet School. He spent 11 years covering a wide variety of news as a community journalist, including politics, crime and current affairs.
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