Eskom has announced on Thursday, November 18 that stage 2 loadshedding, which was implemented on Wednesday will end at 9pm tonight. However, stage 1 loadshedding will be implemented on Friday at 5am.
Eskom’s CEO Andre de Ruyter said during a virtual media briefing on their current system challenges that the change of loadshedding stages will be subject to the units returning at the Matumba 2, Matla 6 and Tuthuka 4 power plants.
“Planned maintenance units on outage amount to 3,910MW, we have full unplanned losses of 8,900MW and partial losses of 4,901MW which gives you total unplanned losses of 13,991MW, which is very high,” De Ruyter said.
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The City of Cape Town’s loadshedding status:
Load-shedding update:
Eskom has announced it will suspend load-shedding tonight from 21:00 – 05:00 on 19 November and will go to Stage 1 until 21:00 on Friday.
For City customers, load-shedding will be suspended from 21:00 and there will not be load-shedding tomorrow.#CTInfo pic.twitter.com/xH00MZAaAV
— City of Cape Town (@CityofCT) November 18, 2021
Meanwhile, an 11-year-old boy from Gauteng sustained fatal injuries after coming into contact with an illegal electricity connection in the Tjovitjo informal settlement, in Orange Farm, on Tuesday, November 16. Eskom SHEQS Manager in Gauteng, Kith Maitisa, said Eskom has already disconnected the wires that were illegally connected to the transformer supplying electricity to a neighbouring school.
“It is most concerning to us that it is often children who fall victim to these unscrupulous acts of criminality where cables are openly laid along the ground to steal electricity. Illegal connections are totally unsafe as they do not only risk injury to those conducting them, but also to others in the same vicinity, “Maitisa said.
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