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Eskom planning Stage 5 and Stage 6 Load Shedding?

Officials and government are working to ensure that a national blackout and grid collapse doesn’t happen, reported Fin24 on Tuesday. If they fail, Eskom will be forced to implement stage 5 and 6 load shedding for the first time, the report said. These stages shed 5000MW and 6000MW respectively, according to the report.

Load Shedding

Already load shedding is affecting a lot of areas in South Africa, If we get to stage 5 and 6 it will be total chaos.

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Eskom’s load shedding briefing affected by load shedding

Eskom’s load shedding briefing affected by load shedding. The media is currently waiting for Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan and Eskom chairperson Jabu Mabuza to address the media on the Eskom’s current electricity supply problems and, in a perhaps not-so-surprising twist, the building where the briefing is taking place is currently being load shed.

Not even a briefing to discuss the utility’s problems is immune to those problems. The briefing is happening at the Crowne Plaza in Rosebank, which is currently undergoing Stage 4 load shedding according to City Power’s schedule.

The Citizen’s reporter at the briefing told us that at the venue of the briefing “the diesel generator thudding away in the basement parking is working hard”. Eskom has said before that it was not immune to load shedding…

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