Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom’s official three-month outlook for demand and generating capacity shows a high likelihood of load shedding every single week until mid-April. But there is reason for encouragement.

Residents and businesses in Johannesburg may soon find load-shedding times reduced from the current four-hour blocks, to the two-hour blocks imposed elsewhere in South Africa.

Former Openserve and Internet Solutions executive Prenesh Padayachee has been appointed as chief digital officer, replacing chief technical officer Claes Segelberg in an expanded role.

Eskom will implement rotational national blackouts, starting at midday on Thursday and running through Friday and the entire weekend.

Load shedding will be back, at stage 2, from 10pm on Wednesday, 6 January, Eskom has announced. The power cuts will be repeated on Thursday.

Eskom has taken Unit One of Koeberg offline earlier than planned for scheduled maintenance, exarcerbating the risk of regulator load shedding in the months ahead.

Eskom was scheduled to implement stage-2 load shedding from 10pm on Tuesday, despite many industries being closed for the year-end holidays and the tightened lockdown restrictions.

MTN South Africa has launched MoMo International Airtime, which allows users to purchase airtime for recipients in other countries.

Altron on Thursday successfully listed its former subsidiary Bytes Technology Group on the main board of the London Stock Exchange, with a secondary listing on the JSE.

Former Dimension Data Group CEO Jason Goodall, who was appointed as CEO of Dimension Data parent NTT Ltd in mid-2019, will step down from his executive responsibilities next year.