Stage 5 Load Shedding Hits just As Ramaphosa Praises ANC Achievements

Johnathan Paoli

Power utility, Eskom, has announced its decision to shift the country to Stage 5 load shedding from Sunday at 16:00 until Monday at 05:00.

The utility plans on subsequently reducing load-shedding to Stage 4 until 16:00 before ramping back up to Stage 5 on Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

Eskom’s announcement of Stage 5 Load Shedding follows on the heels of the ANC’s 2019 Manifesto rally in Soweto in which President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the dire straits of the country and the need to fight and defeat load shedding.

Whilst praising the achievements of the ANC over the last three decades, Ramaphosa remained vague concerning practical and definitive plans regarding how to solve the country’s power crisis.

Eskom said the reason for the intensified load-shedding was increased planned maintenance, from an average of 3,000MW in June to an average of 6,000 MW in September, as well as the