For every person living in this country, the past two weeks of load shedding have been extremely frustrating and challenging. The widespread public anger is wholly justified.
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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.
South African power cuts should ease over coming days, according to public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.
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.
Public-private security partnerships must be established to bolster the security of the country’s electricity infrastructure.
The severe power cuts afflicting South Africa are set to continue.
South Africa will move ahead with the allocation of three onshore wind stations from a delayed round of bidding to provide renewable power.
Government has held urgent meetings to find ways to ease record rolling power cuts, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his weekly letter to the nation.
Eskom has provided details about its plan to procure a gigawatt of additional electricity supply on an urgent basis to reduce the impact of load shedding.
South Africa is teetering on the brink of its most severe power cuts yet, just months after government announced emergency measures to try and end load shedding.