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The power utility further urged the public to reduce the consumption of electricity in order to reduce the strain on the power grid.
Meanwhile, City Power has made a U-turn on its announcement that it would not be implementing load shedding.Pushing up the revs: How Matshela Koko's Eskom kept the lights on, and why the system is now broken On Sunday, the Johannesburg municipal power utility refused to go ahead with rolling blackouts. It believed a new deal with a private power station would supply enough additional electricity to shield it from stage 2 load shedding.
It has since announced that it would need to implement load shedding “to save the national grid from total collapse”.
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