Power producer Eskom decided to serve South African’s an alternate breakfast by announcing just after 7am this morning that Stage 1 loadshedding will be implemented for the remainder of the day.
Stage 1 loadshedding currently in progress due to technical faults. Loadshedding expected to end at 22:00. KP
— Eskom Media Desk (@Eskom_MediaDesk) August 6, 2015
This comes after Eskom implemented Stage 2 loadshedding yesterday. Today’s electricity cut-off comes after Eskom explained that there has been a number of technical faults.
Due to increased demand and units being on maintenance load shedding stage 1 has been implemented and this is likely to be until 22:00. — Eskom Media Desk (@Eskom_MediaDesk) August 6, 2015
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