Eskom will implement load shedding again this coming week, extending the worst bout of rolling power cuts in South Africa’s history.
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The state-owned utility, which is struggling with broken coal-fired power stations, said it will impose stage-3 power cuts on both Saturday and Sunday.
Eskom’s worst-ever bout of load shedding will continue indefinitely at stage 4, instead of the previous mix of stage 3 and stage 4.
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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.
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.
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