• News
  • Sport
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Education
  • TV Licences
  • Contact Us
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION
No Result
View All Result
1
Home Business

Eskom suspends load shedding from 8pm Friday

29 October 2021, 5:06 PM  |
SABC SABC |  @SABCNews
File image: Aerial view of Arnot Power Station, Middelburg, South Africa

File image: Aerial view of Arnot Power Station, Middelburg, South Africa

Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license

File image: Aerial view of Arnot Power Station, Middelburg, South Africa

Eskom will suspend stage two load shedding from 8pm this evening.

Briefing the media a short while ago, COO Jan Oberholzer says there have been some improvements in the generation capacity, which has allowed its generation reserves ahead of the weekend.

Eskom briefing on load shedding:

The power utility adjusted the load shedding schedule to stage two from 5am this morning.

Eskom says it is confident that next week’s local government elections will not be affected by load shedding. It has however stressed that the power system is constrained and some units are unpredictable and unreliable.

Ramaphosa on load shedding

On Thursday, African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa said he is confident the intermittent power outages being experienced by Eskom will be resolved by this weekend.

Eskom implemented stage four load-shedding after it lost a large part of its generating capacity. The power utility on Thursday announced that the country will be moving to stage three from 9pm, reduced to stage two from 5am Saturday.

Ramaphosa has downplayed concerns that sabotage of Eskom may have been the cause of load shedding.

He was speaking to journalists while campaigning for the governing ANC in Thokoza, east of Johannesburg, ahead of Monday’s local government elections.

Eskom has plunged the country into the dark and many South Africans are unhappy.

The ANC is also not happy saying its government will be harshly judged at the polls by Eskom’s failure to keep the lights on. In its statement earlier this week, the governing party suspected sabotage. But speaking on the side-lines of his campaign in Ekurhuleni on Thursday,  Ramaphosa said the intermittent power outages are not intentional. He has assured South Africans that this problem would be solved by the weekend.

And on whether heads will roll in his cabinet or at Eskom, he said, for now, his obsession is getting power restored insisting the rest will follow. This comes at a time when there is mounting pressure on him to fire Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan together with the Eskom Board.

Ramaphosa said the grand solution to the Eskom crisis is opening up the market for Independent Power Producers.

On Wednesday, during a briefing with Gordhan regarding the latest power outages, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter outlined the reasons behind the load shedding across the country.

He said that the securing of power reserves ahead of election day was among the factors that necessitated the current load shedding.

Share article
Previous Post

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus poised for re-election at WHO

Next Post

Defending champs Windies record first win at this year’s ICC T20 World Cup

Related Posts

File image: Chicken  pictured at a poultry factory

Western Cape chicken farms on high alert after bird flu outbreak

4 June 2023, 7:24 PM
File image: Auditor-General, Tsakani Maluleke briefs the standing committee on the Auditor-General on the 2021-22 local government audit outcomes on May 31, 2023.

Active citizens will help hold municipalities accountable: Analyst

4 June 2023, 6:01 PM
File image: Stakeholders meeting at Kliptown SAPS to talk about the incident that happened at Maponya Mall in Soweto on Friday.

Transport sector needs proper regulation to help drive economy: Economist

3 June 2023, 6:47 PM
North West province

Four North West municipalities placed under financial rescue

3 June 2023, 10:00 AM
An Eskom power station seen at night.

Higher stages of load shedding don’t suggest a grid collapse: Ramokgopa

2 June 2023, 9:00 PM
New Development Bank head office

New Development Bank making good progress: Pandor

2 June 2023, 4:32 PM
Next Post
File Photo: West Indies' Kemar Roach celebrates the wicket of Afghanistan's Gulbadin Naib with teammates.

Defending champs Windies record first win at this year's ICC T20 World Cup

Most Viewed

  • 24hrs
  • Week
  • Month
  • Deadline for Zimbabwean Exemption Permits draws near
  • Eastern Cape ActionSA raises eyebrows over qualifications of senior officials
  • Durban’s N2 road, Spaghetti Junction closed due to cleanup operations
  • Limpopo healthcare set to get massive boost with multi-billion rand hospital
  • Scientist finds solution to extending life of power plants’ rotors
  • Dr Nandipha’s looks during court appearances under the spotlight
  • Deadline for Zimbabwean Exemption Permits draws near
  • Reserve Bank expected to increase repo rate on Thursday
  • Zimbabwe receives 18 helicopters from Russian Federation
  • Eastern Cape ActionSA raises eyebrows over qualifications of senior officials
  • Eskom to suspend rolling blackouts on Monday morning
  • Two suspects arrested in connection with murder of MUT lecturer
  • Kremlin: Western long-range missiles to Ukraine will fuel ‘spiralling tension’
  • Road crashes claim 14 lives in E. Cape and Limpopo
  • Families, rescuers search for victims of India’s worst train crash in decades

LATEST

A member of  Lesotho's military looks on as he stands guard in front of an armed personnel carrier at the entrance of the army barracks in the capital Maseru.
  • Africa

Lesotho’s youth development boot camp aims to tackle crime, ill-discipline


Fugitive pair of Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana
  • Thabo Bester saga
  • South Africa

Judgment expected in Dr Nandipha’s urgent application against her arrest


Reaction Officers and Detectives arrest 2 suspects in connection with the murder of MUT lecturer, Chanlall Dwarika on May 31, 2023.
  • South Africa

MUT University expresses shock at the murder of one of its lecturers


The Demoratic Alliance logo is displayed on a table.
  • Politics

Big names enter the Gauteng DA leadership race: Analyst


Working On Fire's Managing Director, Trevor Abrahams and members of his team.
  • World

200 SA firefighters land in Canada to help put out wildfires


Mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, leader of the main opposition party Civic Platform (PO) Donald Tusk and former Polish President and Peace Nobel Prize laureate, Lech Walesa take part in the march on the 34th anniversary of the first democratic elections in postwar Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2023.
  • World

Polish opposition supporters, seeking change, mark 1989 Solidarity win


Weather

  • About the SABC
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Advertise
  • Disclaimer
  • Site Map

SABC © 2023

No Result
View All Result
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION

© 2023

Previous Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus poised for re-election at WHO
Next Defending champs Windies record first win at this year’s ICC T20 World Cup