Economy out of recession but still in the dark.
Statistics South Africa released data in early December last year indicating that farms and factories dragged South Africa out of its first recession in almost a decade … as the economy grew by more than expected in the third quarter of 2018.
Eskom would like the public to believe that it “normally takes a sequence of steps to keep the system stable and to avoid load shedding, the steps include first asking large customers to reduce load voluntarily” . However, since 29 November 2018 the experience of the South African public, including the large users of electricity, businesses and individual households has been that Eskom tends to skip those steps and goes straight to load shedding.
December 2018 was littered with sentiments along a similar vein as the country battled to understand the new spectre of load shedding, reminiscent of over a decade ago when South Africans were first introduced to rolling blackouts. During the period of load shedding in December 2007 and January 2008, South Africans came to understand that the rolling blackouts were as a result of a lack of capacity of the then aging power stations infrastructure.
The “shoddy workmanship” at Kusile and Medupi power stations is said to have contributed to the sudden onset of load shedding in December 2018. As a consequence, senior engineers at Eskom have advised the media that Eskom was in the process of instituting a major court battle against the original equipment manufacturers arising from design flaws that affected the full capacity output of the newly built Medupi and Kusile.
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