President Cyril Ramaphosa says the energy crisis currently faced by the country will soon come to an end. South Africans have expressed frustration, as Eskom battles to keep the lights on with stage 4 load shedding currently in place and was expected to last until 11pm. Ramaphosa, speaking in Sharpeville on Thursday in his Human..
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Dumb Twit!! SA will overcome load shedding like apartheid, says Ramaphosa
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Petra Diamonds halts SA mining operations over power cuts – Eskom will be to blame for the downfall of SA’s economy
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Petra Diamonds has confirmed it received a notification from Eskom, asking it to reduce its load to the essential level. As a result, it has announced it’s in the process of halting its mining operations in South Africa. Petra Diamonds said all production, hoisting and processing have stopped with immediate effect at its operations in..
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What a disgrace! Table Mountain Cableway: Visitors get stuck amid #Rollingblackouts
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The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company said power surges may have caused the failure of its generator. The impact of load shedding is being felt across the country, as Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) on Monday confirmed that visitors got stuck on top of the mountain. In a statement on Monday evening, TMACC said:..
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Cash strapped Eskom wants another R27bn from consumers – Could this be the reason why SA is experiencing #Rollingblackouts? To manipulate us into giving them what they want?
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In its latest application to the energy regulator, the power utility is claiming this as an underrecovery for 2018/19, meaning tariffs may rise by 16.6% next year Eskom, which last week again saw a collapse of its power network that led to nationwide load shedding, wants consumers to cough up a further R27 billion for..
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Debt ridden Eskom shutting down power plants it can’t afford to fix and increasing the risk of #rollingblackouts- We can thank the incompetent ANC-regime for this!
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Eskom has permanently shut down several power generation units at older power stations due to its inability to fix them, the Sunday Times reports. This decision has cut the power utility’s available electrical capacity to meet demand, which may increase the risk of load-shedding going forward. Eskom said that the old power generation units at..
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Eskom warns – Be prepared for ‘load shedding at short notice’
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The struggling utility has been forced to go the expensive route of using water and diesel due to the breakdown of some units. The “unexpected loss” of some of Eskom’s generation units over the weekend has left the electricity system “severely constrained”, the struggling energy utility said in a statement. While the statement said load..
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Power outages cost SA millions of rands a day and could mean an economic downfall
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Ramaphosa may forget to go ahead with successful results whilst begging for investments when Eskom has already started shedding power, says a well-known economist from Pretoria. Eskom’s load shedding, without any announcement, costs South Africa millions of rand a day, and the entity is in two ways destroying the country economically. On the one hand,..
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#RollingBlackouts are back due to a shortage of power generation at Eskom power stations contributed by lack of skill
Eskom problems not solved yet – Possibility of load shedding exists in the coming months
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The DA said in a statement on Thursday that it had reliably heard that Eskom had issued a warning to municipalities about the “strong possibility of load shedding in September and October” this year. Natasha Mazzone, DA’s shadow minister of public affairs, said in the statement that the opposition party has now written to Eskom..
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170 Farm Attacks and 20 Farm Murders but an exorbitant inauguration costing taxpayers R120 million, took place – what an enormous amount to spend on a one-off and unnecessary ceremony such as this
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Hardworking humble South African taxpayers have to pay for the inauguration while still having to tolerate; sub-standard service delivery, corruption, state capture, lies, load-shedding and fuel price increases to name just a few extreme inconveniences and chaos individuals are expected to tolerate. AfriForum condemns the decision by the presidency to press on with the exorbitant..
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City of Joburg, big companies say no to Eskom and go off the grid – Anglo Platinum, Sibanye-Stillwater, Makro and the City of Johannesburg are all loosening their ties to Eskom
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Forward-thinking businesses in SA are now starting to confront life without Eskom by putting plans in place to generate their own energy. Anglo Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater are two high profile companies at an advanced stage of planning for solar plants to generate their own electricity. The City of Joburg wants to cement a deal with..
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Eskom in deep trouble as China withholds crucial R7-billion loan – partial loan to be paid out by China to bankrupt Eskom never occurred due to fears that bankrupt state entity would use money to pay salaries
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China is withholding a R7-billion payment meant to help Eskom combat its current financial issues due to fears that the power utility will not complete its power station construction projects. According to a report in the City Press, the Chinese Development Bank (CDB) has become wary of Eskom’s promises and is concerned that it will..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Load shedding likely to return this week, “high risk” of blackouts forecast
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The spectre of load shedding is set to haunt South Africans again this week, as Eskom reveal that there’s a “high risk” of power cuts over the next few days. Pravin Gordhan, Jabu Mabuza and a team of Eskom executives vowed to keep the lights on throughout winter last week. Their guarantee made it five..
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Do you think that Pravin Gordhan has the Eskom case under control, well think again, report suggests that load shedding is about to get much worse in SA
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As Eskom’s old units go offline and the cost to replace generational capacity soars, the severity of load shedding may well increase over the next decade. If we think we’ve had it bad with load shedding this year, we should brace ourselves for the decade ahead. That’s the message coming from Bloomberg on Monday after..
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Eskom – You can’t sue us, it’s our right to load shed
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The power utility has brushed off a planned class action for damages caused during load shedding – a legal case an expert says won’t succeed. The planned class-action lawsuit against Eskom’s load shedding may garner popular support, but it may not be successful, considering the technicalities – and Eskom says they can’t be forced to..
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