NATIONAL NEWS - It’s going to be a dry and dark week ahead, with more load shedding and increased water restrictions announced over the weekend.
Eskom introduced stage 2 load shedding daily from 4pm to midnight until Wednesday due to the breakdown of four generating units.
SA’s energy crisis
Politics professor at the University of Limpopo Kgothatso Shai said South Africa was experiencing a man-made crisis.
The reinstatement of power cuts wasn’t a refusal to stabilise load shedding, he said, adding it was possibly the only way to prevent a total blackout.
“The energy insecurity crisis is more complex than what meets the eye. We indeed have a capacity challenge. But the crisis of leadership in Eskom does not make the situation easier,” he said
The current Eskom leadership has been sabotaged internally by those with political and business
links.
“This is a man-made crisis. The agenda is clear and simple; to weaken the current leadership and replace it with another that is friendly to political and business interests,” he said.
It’s going to be a dry and dark week ahead, with more load shedding and increased water restrictions announced over the weekend.
Eskom introduced stage 2 load shedding daily from 4pm to midnight until Wednesday due to the breakdown of four generating units.
SA’s energy crisis
Politics professor at the University of Limpopo Kgothatso Shai said South Africa was experiencing a man-made crisis.
The reinstatement of power cuts wasn’t a refusal to stabilise load shedding, he said, adding it was possibly the only way to prevent a total blackout.
“The energy insecurity crisis is more complex than what meets the eye. We indeed have a capacity challenge. But the crisis of leadership in Eskom does not make the situation easier,” he said
The current Eskom leadership has been sabotaged internally by those with political and business
links.
“This is a man-made crisis. The agenda is clear and simple; to weaken the current leadership and replace it with another that is friendly to political and business interests,” he said.
