Stage 4 load shedding scheduled for Wednesday

Stage 4 load shedding scheduled for Wednesday

Eskom says Stage Four power cuts will be implemented again from 9am, today. The scheduled power cuts are expected to continue until 11pm, tonight.

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Stage Two load shedding is currently underway. 

The parastatal says this is due to a shortage of capacity. 

You can find the loadshedding schedules to your area here.

Meanwhile, Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan says teams are hard at work trying to get to the bottom of the country's electricity crisis. 

Gordhan and top Eskom management briefed the media on the latest bout of loadshedding yesterday. 

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He says they cannot really say what the problem is at this stage - apart from ageing infrastructure and power lines that have been shut down due to the cyclone in Mozambique. 

"Right now we have - on a voluntary basis - 12 or 14 engineers that are visiting the power stations themselves to give us another independent view of what is going wrong and how quickly we can repair what is going wrong at the power stations. So that demonstrates to you our eagerness and determination to get to what the problems are," Gordhan said. 

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