South Africans are taking body blows left, right and centre at the moment with load shedding and a fuel price hike adding to ...

South Africa will experience load-shedding, or rolling blackouts, over the weekend after more than 10 months of uninterrupted electricity supply, Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho ...

Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told reporters that Eskom had depleted its reserves and as a result would implement “Stage 3” power cuts, requiring up to 3 000 megawatts of capacity to be shed ...

Eskom has issued an alert, warning of a high risk of rolling blackouts at short notice, with the implementation of Stage 3 loadshedding which kicked in on Friday evening.