The Mandela Bay Arts Festival opened on 21 February with a bold and colourful celebration of local talent across different genres, backgrounds and themes. Even the surprise return of Stage 6 load shedding didn’t stop the fun, as…
Eskom has issued an alert for a high risk of load-shedding at short notice after more than 10 months of uninterrupted power supply. Eskom CEO Dan Marokane said this is a potentially temporary setback. “Load-shedding is largely behind us…
Eskom has announced that it will resume load reduction in some areas due to network overloading with the onset of winter. Load reduction is implemented in areas when the demand is higher than the infrastructure – such as transformers – is…
The image below is Eskom’s monthly load shedding schedule for Port Alfred. It applies to every month, so the schedule on 10 September will be the same as 10 October and so on. Stage 6 was selected for this example (let’s hope it doesn’t…
Cable theft in and around Port Alfred is costing around R9 000 a day. This shocking figure was revealed in an exclusive interview with Ndlambe Municipality’s infrastructure director Dr Noluthando Vithi this week. While every effort has…
Managing planned maintenance to a minimum and increasing diesel burn at open-cycle gas turbines are some measures Eskom will undertake to keep the lights on this winter. This was announced by the energy utility’s interim group CEO Calib…
The cold weather and failure of two generating units have forced Eskom to implement stage 6 load-shedding an hour earlier than anticipated on Monday. The ailing utility on Sunday had announced alternating stages 4 and 6 in the morning…
The Ndlambe local municipality has moved to clear the air about reports Port Alfred in Eastern Cape would be exempt from load-shedding this week. Port Alfred is currently hosting the Second Brics Working Group. As the country battles…
Stakeholders have welcomed the Pretoria high court ruling ordering the government to ensure public hospitals, clinics, schools and police stations are shielded from load-shedding. The judgment came after an application brought by 19…
Varying stages of load-shedding will be implemented over the long weekend, including a predicted reduction to stage 1 — a brief reprieve for South Africans. On Wednesday, the enforced power outages are at stage 4 from 4pm until 5am on…
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has seemingly made a U-turn on his energy plan to see the country free of load-shedding by December. An insider recently told TimesLIVE Ramokgopa’s plan to end blackouts includes a proposal to…
Due to a slight improvement in available generation capacity, load-shedding will be implemented at stages 3 and 4 daily until further notice. The power cuts are envisaged to be at stage 4 from 4pm until 5am. Stage 3 will be implemented…
Eskom will decrease load-shedding from Monday after repairs at some generation plants. Eskom will remove 3,000 megawatts from the national grid from 5am on Monday until 4pm in the afternoon, according to a statement issued on Sunday. From…
Eskom says load-shedding will be implemented at stage 3 until 4pm on Monday and at stage 4 until 5am on Tuesday. This is due to two generating units at Tutuka power station being shut down during the night, while the return to service of…
Stage 4 load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Thursday afternoon until 5am on Friday. Eskom said stage 3 load-shedding will then be implemented until 4pm on Friday. “This pattern will be repeated until Sunday morning,” it said.…
