City Power teams say they’re stretched beyond capacity. Technicians are working to deal with several outages not related to load shedding.

So who do we believe? Government or the current Eskom management? Gwede Mantashe has made new eyebrow raising comments.

It keeps getting worse.
STAGE 4 load shedding is now here for the rest of the weekend. Eskom has given a grim update…

How long will it be until President Ramaphosa is ‘shocked’ by Stage 8 load shedding? Cyril put his money where his mouth is on Friday.

‘Eskom believes these were deliberate acts of sabotage by someone who had access to the site where only employees have access and knows the security features in the area quite well.’

With each passing day, the grim threat of Stage 8 load shedding becomes more of a reality – and one Eskom expert is fearing the worst.

Eskom has escalated load shedding to stage 4 on Monday, 16 May due to further loss of generating capacity.

Eskom had warned it would be forced to implement more load shedding throughout the coming week due to a loss in generation capacity

They told us it probably wouldn’t happen this weekend. But…
More load shedding from Eskom. Stage 2 is also likely for the new week.

Eskom says there is a low probability of load shedding being implemented this coming weekend, but don’t put away those candles yet

Eskom has been carrying out load shedding during the evening peak since Monday as it struggles to meet the demand for power

With coal plants expected to close in the coming years, electricity costs and load shedding could increase as renewable energy comes in.

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter have been criticised for failures at the utility

Eskom announced that load shedding would again be implemented during the evening peak on Thursday, 12 May.

Load shedding is back. Again. At this rate, it might be easier if we started publishing schedules of when the lights are actually staying ON.

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Eskom are asking citizens to help ‘ease the burden’ – but it’s a shame they can’t use all this gaslighting to keep the lights on, instead.

‘The onset of winter has seen increased demand and this will lead to severe capacity constraints throughout this period, particularly during evening and morning peaks,’ said Eskom.

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As expected, Eskom announced that Stage 2 load shedding would be implemented from 17:00 on Monday evening, 9 May.

The guy tasked with keeping the electricity flowing in South Africa has stepped down from the role, leaving Eskom in a pickle.

Eskom is cutting the power to high density areas in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, North West and Free State from 17:00 on Monday.

Eskom says load shedding might be necessary during the evening peaks, should there be any more breakdowns in available capacity