Makhanda has pulled out all the stops to welcome back art lovers ahead of the National Arts Festival which kicks off on 23 June.

Stage 2 load shedding starts at 10:00 on Wednesday and will be implemented even earlier – at 5:00 – from Thursday onwards.

‘Due to the continued shortage of generation capacity, load shedding will be implemented every evening at the same time until Thursday night,’ said Eskom.

Eskom said the shortage in generation capacity means load shedding may be implemented at short notice between 17:00 and 22:00.

Guests at Zimbabwe’s five star hotel in Harare, Meikles were offered buckets of hot bath water due to load shedding.

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Eskom warned that load shedding may be implemented at short notice if there are any significant breakdowns on Tuesday.

Eskom says load shedding is currently not anticipated, but warns that significant breakdowns at its power stations could change all that

Eskom says should there be any significant breakdowns, load shedding might be required again, most likely during the evening peak

Who says no? An initial R15 billion offering from the UK could also rise eight-fold – in a bid to help eliminate load shedding.

Eskom says should there be any significant breakdowns, load shedding might be required again, most likely during the evening peak

Eskom says there was a breakdown of generation units at two power stations, which necessitated the re-introduction of load shedding

While Eskom says there has been an improvement in generation capacity, it says there is an elevated risk of load shedding

More power cuts this weekend.
Eskom says there will be an “elevated risk of load shedding in the coming weeks”.

One of South Africa’s biggest industrial hubs may be able to ditch load shedding ‘overnight’ – thanks to this $100 million project.

Eskom has been carrying out load shedding during the evening peak for more than a week as it struggles to meet the demand for power

Eskom hasn’t given any indication as to whether customers can expect any more load shedding for the coming week

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.

For an overwhelming majority of South Africans, we’ve got five hours of Stage 2 load shedding coming up. Others are more fortunate, though.

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.