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Eskom to implement Stage 6 rolling blackouts from Monday afternoon

3 July 2022, 1:50 PM  |
Risha Maduray Risha Maduray |  @SABCNews
A person near a Paraffin light during a blackout in Soweto, South Africa, March 2021.

A person near a Paraffin light during a blackout in Soweto, South Africa, March 2021.

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A person near a Paraffin light during a blackout in Soweto, South Africa, March 2021.

Eskom says Stage 6 rolling blackouts will be implemented from 16:00 on Monday afternoon, with varying stages of power cuts during the week.

Stage 4 is currently being implemented until midnight.

Eskom has been implementing power cuts due to further losses in generation capacity amid the ongoing impact of labour unrest and maintenance backlogs.

#POWERALERT1

Stage 6 loadshedding will be implemented on Monday afternoon, with varying stages of loadshedding implemented during the week. pic.twitter.com/TfINrHKsYb

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) July 3, 2022

Wage negotiation between Eskom and unions tense: Livhwani Mammburu 

The power utility has offered a 7% wage increase across the board, which unions are now taking to its members.

“Stage 4 is currently being implemented until midnight. Stage 2 load shedding will then be implemented until 05:00 on Monday morning. Stage 4 load shedding will be implemented from 05:00 until 16:00. From 16:00 until 22:00 Stage 6 load shedding will be implemented before it is lowered to Stage 4 until midnight,” says Eskom’s Spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha.

Eskom’s vulnerability

Energy expert Professor Mark Swilling says the strike action by several Eskom employees has revealed the extent of vulnerability at the power utility.

“Striking and bringing production to an end, in this case, has massive consequences for the whole country and I think one of the reasons why they are being forced to call their workers back to work to reach some kind of settlement is not just due to more favourable offers on the table but also the negative reaction from the SA public saying how dare you to make things worse? So that is the situation we are having now because we also need to understand that it is not the strike that caused this, what the strike has done is revealed how vulnerable we are.”

Possible solutions to avoid Eskom’s rolling blackouts: Andile Nomalala

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