Planned maintenance and repairs have been hampered by unauthorized industrial action at some Eskom power facilities, and at certain stations, the entire complement of employees has not reported for duty. Stage 4 load shedding will so continue to be used, according to Eskom.
“Eskom regrets to inform the public that stage 4 load shedding is anticipated to continue from 05h00 on Monday morning until midnight at least until Wednesday. This is due to unlawful and unprotected labour action at a number of power stations, which has caused delays in carrying out planned maintenance and repairs. Furthermore, at a number of power stations, the full staff complement has not reported for duty,” stated the power utility.
The illegal strike action is putting 4,000MW of generation capacity in jeopardy. In order to respond to unforeseen circumstances, it is consequently important to refill emergency generation stocks, according to Eskom. You may see load shedding schedules here for residents of the major urban areas:
City of Johannesburg
City of Ekurhuleni
City of Tshwane
City of Cape Town (PDF)
Nelson Mandela Bay
eThekwini
Manguang
Buffalo City
Eskom has made more load shedding schedules accessible at loadshedding.eskom.co.za. Users of smartphones can also download the app “EskomSePush” to their devices to receive push notifications when load shedding is imposed and when the area they are in will be off the grid.
