Cape Town – Eskom says it has extended stage 4 load shedding until Wednesday morning.
In a statement, Eskom said that the unlawful industrial action at various power stations has impacted planned maintenance and repairs and as a result, Stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented from 05:00 on until midnight.
This will continue at least until Wednesday morning.
“This is due to unlawful and unprotected labour action at a number of power stations, which has caused delays in carrying out planned maintenance and repairs. Furthermore, at a number of power stations, the full staff complement has not reported for duty. As a result, unplanned generation losses have not been reduced as planned, which has compelled Eskom to continue taking precautionary measures to conserve generation capacity and safeguard plant from damage,” said Eskom.
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Unlawful industrial action at various Eskom power stations has impacted planned maintenance and repairs, and at some stations the full complement of workers have not reported for duty. As
a result, Stage 4 loadshedding will regretfully continue to be implemented pic.twitter.com/6iN4wRi8Al— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) June 26, 2022
Eskom had initially announced on Friday morning that load shedding will be implemented at stage 4 from 11:00 until midnight on Friday.
On Saturday and Sunday, stage 4 load shedding will be implemented from 05:00 until midnight.
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