Load shedding has been suspended in eThekwini Municipality. Image: Shutterstock.
Load shedding temporarily suspended in eThekwini Municipality
Residents in the eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal will be happy to hear that load shedding has been suspended.
Load shedding has been suspended in eThekwini Municipality. Image: Shutterstock.
Load shedding has been suspended in eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal.
Rolling blackouts were suspended on Thursday, 29 February.
LOAD SHEDDING SUSPENDED IN ETHEKWINI MUNIICPALITY
In a brief statement, the metro municipality said due to the large amount of electrical faults and outages currently in the City, the load reduction in accordance with load shedding has already been met.
“As a result, the formal load shedding programme will be temporarily suspended,” the municipality said.
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DA CALLS FOR PREVENTATIVE MEASURES
Earlier this month, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in eThekwini called for load shedding to be suspended.
The party also called for a state of disaster to be declared due to the widespread reports of flooding collapsing of homes.
“The Democratic Alliance in eThekwini is now calling for the eThekwini Municipality to be declared a disaster area due to the floods that have ravaged certain areas and the water and electricity outages that abound.
“We are also calling for the city to exempt eThekwini Municipality from load shedding alternatively to make a strong appeal to Eskom for the northern areas to be exempt as the communities have been suffering from serious human rights violations more especially with no access to water, even via water tankers,” DA eThekwini councillor Thabani Mthethwa said.
