Check your load shedding app because scheduled power cuts will be carried out throughout the weekend. This comes as a result of old and unmaintained equipment that has been challenging Eskom on keeping the lights on.
The capacity gap that we got at the moment is between 4,000 and 6,000 megawatts,” said Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter.
De Ruyter said South Africa can’t afford to build new nuclear power plants because it is too expensive.
