POWER utility Eskom has announced that stage 6 load shedding will hit South Africa on Wednesday.
This follows an escalation to stage 4 earlier in the day.
“Stage 6 load shedding will be implemented from 12h00 until further notice,” the group said.
“This is due to a high number of breakdowns since midnight, as well as the requirement to strictly preserve the remaining emergency generation reserves. Eskom will publish a full statement in due course.”
This latest update scuppers attempts by the power utility over the last few days to provide South Africans with a stable schedule to follow when it comes to planning their day around rolling blackouts.
The plan was to initially de-escalate load shedding from stage 4 on the weekend to stage 2 by Wednesday, but instability and breakdowns on the grid ended up pushing the group to extend stage 3 load shedding for longer than intended.
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