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  • FILE: Eskom expects to implement load shedding from 5pm to 8pm this week. Picture: Free Images.

    Load shedding to be implemented during evening peak hours

    The power utility expects to implement load shedding from 5pm to 8pm this week.

    2594 days ago
  • Eskom's new acting CEO, Brian Molefe. Picture: AFP

    Optimism at Eskom as new acting CEO settles in

    Brian Molefe has been appointed as acting CEO while current CEO Tshediso Matona remains suspended.

    2595 days ago
  • FILE. While water reserves have improved there's still a high chance of load shedding this week. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN

    Risk of load shedding this week remains high

    While water reserves have improved, there's still a high chance of load shedding this week.

    2595 days ago
  • Eskom says its water & diesel reserves are still very low, resulting in stage 1 load shedding today. Picture: Free Images.

    Eskom implements stage 1 load shedding for Sunday

    The parastatal says its water and diesel reserves are still very low & the power is severely constrained.

    2597 days ago
  • FILE. Eskom has implemented stage 2 load shedding from 8am this morning to 10pm tonight. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN

    Saturday: Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding

    Eskom says load shedding will resume from 8am to 10pm as its system is severely constrained.

    2597 days ago
  • Eskom says there is a high possibility load shedding will spill over into the weekend. Picture: AFP.

    Stage one load shedding implemented for Friday

    Eskom says there is a high possibility load shedding will spill over into the weekend.

    2599 days ago
  • FILE. Rolling blackouts will take place across the country until 10pm this evening. Picture: Free Images.

    Tuesday: Stage two load shedding implemented

    Eskom says rolling blackouts will take place across the country until 10pm this evening.

    2602 days ago
  • FILE. The Medupi Power Station in Lephalale. Picture: EWN

    Construction at Medupi expected to resume

    Contract workers walked off site in protest over accommodation, housing allowances and bonuses.

    2620 days ago
  • FILE: Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    ‘Power outages cost the economy up to R89bn every month’

    MEC Lynne Brown briefed Parliament's Portfolio Committee on the happenings at the power utility.

    2621 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom's Megawatt Park in Johannesburg. Picture: Eyewitness News.

    Cosatu considers strike over potential power price hike

    Eskom says it's going to ask Nersa to reopen its multi-year price determination.

    2623 days ago
  • Eskom's chairperson Zola Tsotsi revealed the power utility will be suspending four executives as part of an independent inquiry into the business at Megawatt Park in Johannesburg on 12 March 2015. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN

    DA questions independence of Eskom inquiry

    It was last week announced utility chairperson Zola Tsotsi would head the probe.

    2630 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom's Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: EWN.

    Solidarity: 3,400 white Eskom staffers face retrenchments

    Solidarity says 3,400 white employees will lose their jobs if Eskom is serious about its ‘race targets’.

    2635 days ago
  • FILE: Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson. Picture: Supplied.

    Energy minister snubs energy crisis briefing in Parly

    Tina Joemat-Pettersson has come under fire for not attending a briefing over SA’s energy disaster.

    2636 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom's Koeberg Power Station. Picture: Eskom.

    Stage 2 load shedding for Thursday underway

    The power utility says rolling blackouts are a result of maintenance on a fleet of generators.

    2648 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom is still trying to bring several generators back online, to keep up with electricity demand. Picture: AFP.

    Risk of load shedding remains high

    Eskom is still trying to bring several generators back online to keep up with electricity demand.

    2665 days ago
  • Harmony Gold's Kusasalethu mine. Picture: Harmony Gold.

    Harmony Gold's Q2 production falls 10 percent

    The bullion producer reported a headline loss of R496 million in the three months to 31 December, 2014.

    2665 days ago
  • Smoke rising from the Medupi power plant. Picture: Eskom.

    High probability of load shedding this week

    South Africans may have to brace themselves for more power cuts this week

    2666 days ago
  • President Jacob Zuma addresses media at a working lunch for editors hosted at the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria on 8 February 2015. Picture: GCIS.

    Zuma: Load shedding not entirely government's fault

    The president says poor leadership is not to blame for the current power crisis in the country.

    2666 days ago
  • FILE: Traffic lights not working in Cape Town as a result of load shedding by Eskom. Picture: AFP.

    Unexpected load shedding jams up CT roads

    Stage two load shedding started this morning, snarling up CT’s busiest intersections.

    2669 days ago
  • The DA Parliamentary leader leading a demonstration outside Eskom's headquarters in Johannesburg. Picture: Gia Nicolaides/EWN.

    Maimane: Eskom can no longer deliver

    The DA Parliamentary leader led a demonstration outside Eskom's HQ in Johannesburg.

    2670 days ago
  • Eskom's Kusile Power Station. Picture: Facebook.

    Stage 1 load shedding commences

    The power utility says two of its generators went offline this morning due to technical faults.

    2670 days ago
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