There is an app for everything these days and, given that power cuts have become part of everyday life for South Africans, a quick search on your favourite app store will return a growing number of load-shedding applications to help you through these dark days
Government on Tuesday dismissed a hoax statement saying it had been warned by Eskom the main power grid could crash, plunging the country into darkness for over two weeks, the department of communications said. “The message regarding Eskom is not
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Stage one power cuts will be implemented on Monday afternoon, electricity provider Eskom said. The company posted on its Twitter feed at 2.30pm: “Stage 1 load shedding to be implemented from 4pm to 10pm due to shortage of capacity
Stage two of rolling power cuts have ended on Sunday, with the power system to be under “severe pressure” over the coming week, Eskom said. “Eskom stopped stage two load shedding at 10.10pm on 8 February 2015,” the parastatal
A financial black hole of growing proportions is engulfing Eskom as it dances between blackouts and load shedding. The utility claims that maintenance issues are the principal reason
Stage two rolling power cuts will be implemented on Friday morning, power utility Eskom said. The power outages would be from 8am until 10pm, Eskom said on its official Twitter account. Stage three
Eskom has moved to stage three power cuts, the power utility’s media desk said on Thursday. “Eskom moved from stage two to stage three load shedding at 4pm today, which is expected to
Stage two rolling power cuts will be implemented on Thursday morning, power utility Eskom said. The power outages would be from 8am until 11pm due to a shortage of generation capacity, the Eskom media desk tweeted on its official account
Eskom would implement stage one blackouts from 10am on Wednesday, it said. “There is a high demand for power and Eskom cannot meet the demand,” said spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. He said the risk of blackouts
