Political and economic analysts have described Eskom’s announcement of stage 6 load shedding as a blow to the Government of National Unity (GNU) and...

The Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has assured South Africans that load shedding will be over by the end of the week.

The electricity utility lost 10 generating units at the weekend but has said it is making good progress in restoring them to service.

Ramokgopa said the electricity department will soon announce comprehensive measures to end load shedding and load reduction.

Eskom ramped up load shedding to Stage 6 after midnight but many fear the worse is yet to come especially in winter.

Eskom has reduced the intensity of load shedding after the recovery of multiple plants that had failed at the weekend.

Eskom has suspended load shedding after a recovery of generation capacity and the replenishment of emergency reserves.

Eskom suspended load-shedding after recovering more than 3,000MW generation capacity and replenishing its emergency reserves.