With stage 2 load shedding making an unwelcome return on Saturday after just 14 hours of relief, many South Africans across the country will be pulling out the candles and loading up their generators with diesel for who knows how long.
Power utility Eskom announced on Saturday afternoon that four more units in its ageing fleet of power stations broke down overnight, leading to a shortage of capacity.
The last break the country got was on the weekend of 7 October, when load shedding was suspended after 32 consecutive days of blackouts – but only for a day or so.and planning their days around the blackouts, but several discrepancies have turned up. Responding in a written parliamentary Q&A this week, the Department of Public Enterprises moved to clear up any confusion about these discrepancies.
Out of approximately 220 municipalities, only 20 implement load shedding from their side – the rest are loadshed by Eskom, it said.the City of Ekurhuleni,
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