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The solar power industry is the latest to be hit by China’s strict Covid control measures, with equipment makers slashing production.

At first it had planned to cut the power at night only. Now Eskom has said it will implement continuous load shedding until 5am on Friday.

Eskom has published a request for proposals to allow private producers to use land around its coal-fired power stations to build solar farms.

Eskom is scrutinising contracts to buy power from a government programme for private developers to quickly bring on board additional generation.

Eskom will again implement load shedding countrywide on Tuesday, with the rolling blackouts set to continue until Friday.

Eskom is implementing stage-2 load shedding with immediate effect. This is after unit 5 of the Medupi power station tripped, taking 700MW of capacity offline.

Diesel prices will rise sharply on Wednesday, potentially fuelling inflation in South Africa, despite government’s move to slash taxes to offset a price shock.

Johannesburg’s electricity infrastructure is being pilfered by armed criminal syndicates “on an industrial scale”, MMC Michael Sun said.

South Africa’s plan to add an estimated R95-billion worth of private emergency power generation has been further delayed.

Mosai Barnard Moraka and Vilosi Tshabalala have been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison for stealing R35-million from Eskom.