Eskom increases weekend load-shedding

Eskom has increased its planned day-time load-shedding for Saturday, 6 May 2023.

“Due to the further breakdown of generating units in the early hours of the morning, stage 4 load-shedding will be implemented at 05:00 this morning until 16:00,” Eskom said.

The abrupt change was announced just before 03:00 AM on Saturday morning.

The utility had originally planned to rotate between stage 3 day-time load-shedding and stage 4 evening load-shedding on Saturday and Sunday.

It is unclear whether the breakdowns would also result in increased load-shedding after 16:00, or if the planned stage 4 load-shedding will remain as is.

Eskom said it would publish a further update as soon as there were any significant changes.

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Eskom increases weekend load-shedding