Bad news for stage 5 load-shedding

Eskm has continued to implement stage 5 load-shedding from 05:00 on Wednesday, 12 April 2023.

The utility had originally planned to reduce the rotational power cuts to stage 3 until 16:00 on Wednesday.

It blamed the more severe load-shedding on electricity demand being higher than anticipated.

Eskom said stage 5 would last until further notice and that it would provide an update on the load-shedding schedule later on Wednesday afternoon.

For residents in the City of Cape Town, load-shedding will only be implemented at stage 4.

The metropolitan municipality is able to shield its residents from higher levels of load-shedding thanks to the 180MW Steenbras pumped-storage dam.

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Bad news for stage 5 load-shedding