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Load shedding remains suspended for SA
Eskom said residents and businesses across the country are expected to have another weekend of reprieve as load shedding remains…
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Electricity Minister visits Limpopo power stations
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is once again set to visit Eskom power stations. He’s expected to assess the state of…
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Lethabo no longer best performing power station
Lethabo Power Station was the best-performing coal power station just a few months ago. But it has since lost its…
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Rooting out corruption at Eskom remains a challenge, says Pravin Gordhan
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said that despite the progress made to improve operations at Eskom, corruption remained pervasive. Gordhan…
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Load shedding lowered to Stage 1 until Saturday afternoon
Eskom reduced load shedding to Stage 1 on Saturday morning. Stage 2 will then be implemented from 4pm on Saturday…
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Stage 4 power cuts to be in place at night until further notice
Eskom on Sunday announced that stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented from 4 pm until 5 am.…
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Gap between electricity supply and demand closing, says Ramokgopa
There may just be a glimmer of light at the end of the rolling blackout tunnel. Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa…
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Stage 3 load shedding to hit SA during evening peak periods
Power utility Eskom has implemented stage 3 load shedding due to breakdowns at power stations. Sunday’s load shedding will end…
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Pravin Gordhan: SA must settle for significant load shedding for rest of 2023
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan said the country will have to settle for load shedding of a ‘significant order,’…
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Eskom to implement stages 4 & 5 load shedding until further notice
Eskom has announced that stage 5 load shedding will be implemented from 4 pm this afternoon until 5 am on…
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Eskom to implement Stage 4 load shedding on Tuesday after 3 more units break down
Power utility Eskom says stage 4 load shedding will be implemented from 5 am to 4 pm on Tuesday. Stage…
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Eskom confirms Stage 6 load shedding until at least Tuesday
Eskom says Stage 6 load shedding will continue to be implemented until 5 am on Tuesday morning. Thereafter, Stage 5…
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Eskom: Stage 5 power cuts to kick in from 4PM on Tuesday
As residents contend with stage 3 power cuts, Eskom said that stage 5 load shedding was on the cards later…
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Minister Ramokgopa highlights design flaws in Medupi construction
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa continues to visit coal-fired power stations across the country. During his visit to Medupi and Matimba,…
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Electricity Minister Ramokgopa visits Limpopo power stations
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has been crisscrossing the country, visiting Eskom power plants to get the extent of problems leading…
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Stage 3 load shedding from Wednesday afternoon
Eskom has announced that it will be suspending load shedding until 5 am on Wednesday, with Stage 2 load shedding…
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Power cuts to alternate between stage 4 and 5 this week
Eskom has announced that it will ramp up load shedding to stage 4 from 4 pm on Sunday. Load shedding…
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Eskom to ease load shedding over next few days
Eskom says that they will be implementing stage 4 and 5 blackouts on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, there will…
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Stage 4 load shedding until further notice
Eskom is implementing stage 4 blackouts until further notice. This is due to breakdowns at Koeberg, Medupi, Kriel, Arnot, and…
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No short term solutions to end load shedding, says Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that South Africans will need to bite the bullet and put up with erratic power…
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Power cuts reduced to Stage 4 from Saturday morning
Eskom has reduced load shedding to Stage 4 from Saturday morning. This will last until 5 AM Sunday, after which…
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Eskom: Fixing Medupi’s unit after explosion will take 2 years to repair
Eskom dismissed two of its employees for the explosion at the Medupi Power Station last year. Unit four at the…
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Eskom implements Stage 2 load shedding
Eskom will implement Stage 2 blackouts from 2pm on Saturday. The utility says this is a result of a breakdown…
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Load shedding a calamity of enormous proportions: President Ramaphosa to Parliament
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday acknowledged the government’s energy failures and also admitted that load shedding was a “calamity of…
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Eskom ramps load shedding to stage 4 as shortage in generation capacity persists
Eskom on Wednesday said persistent shortages in generation capacity at its several power plants has led to the return of…
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Load shedding: Eskom hopes to quickly restore broken units to avoid power cuts
Eskom is pinning its hopes on the quick restoration of broken-down units at its power plants – to avoid implementing…
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DP Mabuza concerned about Medupi & Kusile power stations
Deputy President David Mabuza says he is concerned that Eskom has not implemented Scopa recommendations. The suggestions were made back…
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Expert: No chance of stage 8 load shedding over Eskom pollution matter
Over the past 24 hours there’s been much talk about Eskom implementing stage 8 load shedding, but an energy expert…
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Eskom battles vandalism & severe weather as stage 2 load shedding continues
While stage 2 load shedding is underway, parts of South Africa were also plunged into darkness as Eskom battled severe…
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Eskom to suspend scheduled blackouts
Eskom’s blackouts will be suspended from 9 pm on Sunday. The power utility says emergency generation reserves have adequately recovered.…
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The real cause of load-shedding in South Africa
South Africa has experienced load-shedding since 2007 because the country failed to build new power stations to keep up with…
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Private electricity firms step in to save SA
President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to switch on the light at the end of SA’s dark electricity tunnel… but it won’t…
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Eskom to suspend load shedding on Friday afternoon
Eskom has announced that it will suspend load shedding from 12pm on Friday due to some generation units returning to…
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Eskom to go back to stage 1 load shedding on Thursday
Eskom said it would go back to stage one load shedding on Thursday morning at 9 am after escalating rotational…
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Load-shedding back on Wednesday, but Eskom downgrades to Stage 1
Eskom has downgraded load-shedding from Stage 2 to Stage 1 for Wednesday. The power utility announced on Tuesday that the…
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Load shedding escalates to Stage 6 for the first time in SA history
Eskom’s spokesperson says ongoing rain, the inability to replenish water and diesel resources and units failing to come back online…
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