South Africa
Eskom: Stage 2 load-shedding announced─── 06:30 Sun, 24 Oct 2021
Eskom has announced that it will implement power cuts from 9 pm on Saturday until Monday morning.
The embattled power utility says this is due to a shortage of generation capacity.
#POWERALERT 1
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) October 23, 2021
Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented at 21:00 tonight until 05:00 on Monday in order to replenish emergency generation reserves for the week ahead pic.twitter.com/A4GcceBSTY
Eskom has also attributed this crisis to breakdowns and trips at various power stations.
The utility says it is also trying to restore emergency generation reserves for the week ahead.