South Africa’s state power company intensified rolling blackouts to a record, signalling a deepening crisis at the debt-ridden utility and raising the risk of a second recession in as many years.
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The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.
Eskom said on Wednesday that it will implement stage-2 load shedding from 9am on Wednesday, with outages likely to continue until 11pm.
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der berg talk about government’s spectrum policy direction to communications regulator Icasa.
The ransomware attack that has crippled City Power’s IT systems holds valuable lessons for companies about disaster management and backup, a Swiss-based software specialist has said.
City Power, which provides electricity to the City of Johannesburg, has been hit by a ransomware virus that has crippled its systems.
A new fixed surcharge of R200/month means that City of Johannesburg residents who use prepaid electricity will see actual increases of up to 66% in the cost of power from this month.
Massive areas of South Africa’s largest city were hit by power outages on Friday afternoon after a power line from state-owned utility Eskom tripped during planned maintenance.
While most South Africans spent the past week griping about rolling power cuts, the outages proved a blessing for cable thieves, who are able to work during the blackouts without fear of electrocution.
Johannesburg residents and businesses have been warned to plan ahead for a widespread planned power interruption on Monday, 10 July, extending into the next morning. In a statement, City Power said dozens are suburbs, from