About half of South Africa’s record electricity outages this week have been caused by employees staying away from work during illegal protests, the head of the state power utility said. Moneyweb Eskom Loadshedding
About half of South Africa’s record electricity outages this week have been caused by employees staying away from work during illegal protests, the head of the state power utility said. Eskom was forced to implement Stage-6 power outages — equivalent to cutting 6 000 megawatts from the grid — because of disruptions that have lasted a week after negotiations on wage increases stalled.
Roads to power plants were blocked, cars were set on fire and petrol bombs were thrown at the homes of managers, intimidating workers from reporting for work. That deepened outages that have curbed South African economic output. They’ve also delayed scheduled maintenance at Eskom, which has been struggling to keep its aging coal-fired plants running and fix newer units that are defective.
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