South Africa sees end to power cuts

JOHANNESBURG:

Rolling power cuts in South Africa should come to an end by the end of next week as more power generation units come online, the chief executive of state power utility Eskom, Andre de Ruyter, said on Saturday. Last month Eskom started implementing so-called “Stage 6” power cuts - or load shedding - for only the second time in its history, meaning most South Africans were without power for at least six hours a day. The level of the outages has since been lowered, with Stage 2, 3 and 4 power cuts at different times this week. Eskom has blamed the outages on striking workers hampering efforts to bring faulty generation units back online. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2022.

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