Broken promises? Angry Joburg residents demand answers after load-shedding blackouts

However, this did not materialise. Fuming residents complained on Twitter after experiencing power cuts in line with the load-shedding schedule.

SowetanLIVE reported on Sunday that city mayor Mpho Moerane was furious with Eskom as the city had taken all possible steps to prevent power outages. He accused the power utility of heavy-handedness and vowed to take Eskom to court. He said the city produced proof of additional supply capacity but Eskom had not responded by the time it implemented load-shedding.

“The city is prepared to go the legal route to halt Eskom’s blanket heavy-handedness against the people of Johannesburg, especially those whose Eskom accounts are up to date,” said Moerane. On Sunday Eskom said it will suspend load-shedding on Monday morning but resume at 9pm until 5am the next morning on Monday and Tuesday nights. My localized outage started at 12 and just ended. As per the load shedding schedule for block 16. You guys are miracle workers that your random outages time perfectly with the load shedding schedule.

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