South Africa has, for the past week, been experiencing Stage 4 load-shedding daily, which has seen rolling blackouts - named load-shedding by the power utility - being enforced throughout all provinces. 

In its statement, Eskom said that Stage 4 load-shedding would continue until 11pm on Thursday and then shift to Stage 1 between 11pm and 9am on Friday morning. 

"Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented on Friday, 22 March 2019, from 09h00 to 23h00. This is due to a shortage of capacity," said the statement. 

Eskom's teams were working round-the-clock to return generation units to the system, said the statement. 

African News Agency (ANA)