Author: Staff Reporter

Just a day after South Africa went to the polls in local government elections, Eskom has again said it will implement rolling power cuts.

There is a strong possibility that Eskom will again implement load shedding as soon as Tuesday.

The iStore, the retail arm of South African Apple distributor Core Group, has unveiled pricing for the new MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon.

EOH Holdings has reported a full-year loss of R280-million, an improvement from the R1.7-billion loss in the 2020 financial year.

Takealot Group, South Africa’s largest online retailer, has announced plans to build a giant new distribution centre in Cape Town.

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has tried to assure South Africans that the elections on 1 November will not be disrupted by a lack of power.

Eskom’s electricity supply crisis is intensifying, with the state-owned power monopoly implementing stage-4 load shedding from midday on Wednesday.

Seacom has acquired the metropolitan fibre network of Kenya’s Hirani Telecom to serve its enterprise customers in the country.

So far this year, Eskom has experienced 342 unit trips against a target of 196, 4.61GW of load losses against a target of 3.97GW and 23.1% unplanned load losses against a target of 18%.

The state-owned power utility said the rolling cuts will begin at 9am on Tuesday and last until at least 5am on Saturday, two days before South Africans go to the polls.