Unlike the rest of South Africa, the Western Cape will be experiencing two stages of stage 3 load-shedding to reduce the percentage of consumers affected by power outages, Eskom Western Cape’s head Alwie Lester said on Monday. “We don’t want to take out too many customers than necessary. We don’t[…]
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has seconded Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and appointed him as the acting Eskom CEO after Tshediso Matona was suspended in March. Molefe has been in his role at Transnet since 2011 and was the Public Investment Corporation CEO from 2003 to 2010. Matona was suspended[…]
Eskom will resume power cuts for the sixth day in a row when it starts implementing stage 1 load shedding from 06:00 on Friday morning. This is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening, the utility said. Load shedding started on Sunday and was kicked up a notch on both[…]
Dinner by candlelight conversations often get heated when a guest boasts that they are exempt from load shedding. Possible reasons for this included living near President Jacob Zuma or other powerful leaders. But this week, the City of Cape Town shed light on this heavy load for burdened consumers. As[…]
After a day of stage 2 power outages, Eskom has escalated load shedding to cut off 4000MW (stage 3) from the grid, which will likely end at 10pm. Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented from 18:00 on Tuesday, Eskom said. “Due to the vulnerable system, stage 3 load shedding[…]
More load-shedding is on the cards on Tuesday and is likely to continue until 10pm the evening. Eskom said the electricity supply system remains very vulnerable due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages. “Eskom would like[…]
Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 load shedding from 10:00 on Sunday morning. “This is due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages,” the power utility said. Load shedding was expected to continue until[…]
Eskom chairman Zola Tsotsi has stepped down, the electricity provider announced on Tuesday. On its official Twitter page, Eskom wrote: “Eskom board and chairman Zola Tsotsi have this morning agreed to part ways amicably. Dr Ben Ngubane has been appointed acting chairman.” Eskom said Tsotsi agreed to step down “to[…]
Troubled state institutions like Eskom, the NPA, and the SABC are receiving attention, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. “The ANC noted with serious concern the developments in a number of institutions including Eskom, the SABC, the Hawks, the NPA and Ipid [Independent Police Investigative Directorate], among others,”[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa must provide the country and Parliament with a comprehensive report on the state of Eskom, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. DA Parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said in a statement he had written to Ramaphosa requesting that Parliament be provided with an accurate comprehensive report on[…]
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