SOUTH African power utility Eskom will ramp up outages after breakdowns at six generating units.
The company will increase power cuts to stage 5 — removing 5 000 megawatts from the national grid from 12 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday, it said in a statement on Twitter. It will then implement so-called stage 6 load-shedding for the first time in two weeks, cutting 6 000 megawatts until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, before reverting to stage 5.
Parts of Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub, are being subjected to renewed water-supply cuts as ongoing electricity shortages disrupt pumping operations.
A power failure at Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station, which supplies reservoirs in several high-lying areas of Johannesburg, resulted in critically low levels of supply, the municipality said on Twitter on Monday.
While repairs have been completed, it warned that time is needed to replenish the storage system.
Alternative sources of water have
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