'Load shedding is worse than state capture' - Energy minister Gwede Mantashe says Eskom is attempting to overthrow the government if they don't address issues. Eskom loadshedding loadsheddingupdates GwedeMantashe Read the full story here⤵️
after the minister told South Africans to “stop complaining” because electricity outages are a global phenomenon.
Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse chief executive Wayne Duvenage said Mantashe had “made a fool of himself” by comparing Europe’s energy crisis to SA’s self-made, decades-long disaster, which proved that “ours is a unique problem”.Eskom said it needed to shed 6,000MW from the power grid if it hoped to prevent blackout of the electricity grid.
The failing state-owned-entity said stage 6, which was last implemented in September 2022, will continue unabated at least until 5am on Friday morning whereafter stage 5 will be implemented until 5am on Saturday morning.Eskom also said the outage of Koeberg Unit 1 had been delayed to this Thursday afternoon to get some time to stabilise the system after concerns were raised that load shedding could be implemented at even higher stages.
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