Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom will implement load shedding again this coming week, extending the worst bout of rolling power cuts in South Africa’s history.

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The state-owned utility, which is struggling with broken coal-fired power stations, said it will impose stage-3 power cuts on both Saturday and Sunday.

Eskom’s worst-ever bout of load shedding will continue indefinitely at stage 4, instead of the previous mix of stage 3 and stage 4.

Cape Town-based on-demand home cleaning and services platform SweepSouth has raised a further $11-million in funding, this time led by Alitheia IDF.

Ellies Holdings said on Monday that it will embark on a “formal consultation process” with employees under the Labour Relations Act.

In an update on Friday, Eskom said it plans to move to stage-4 load shedding on Saturday and stage 3 on Sunday as it continues battling plant breakdowns.

Telkom’s IT systems integration business, BCX, has signed a partnership agreement with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services arm of Alibaba Group.

The city has published a tender to build a grid-tied solar plant next year as it moves to shield its residents from the impact of load shedding.