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Eskom CEO, Andre De Ruyter, said that the power utility could implement stage 6 load-shedding on Tuesday night.

The South African power utility implemented stage 4 load-shedding after “unlawful industrial action” at some of its power stations in the past few days. The company says that this has impacted planned maintenance and repairs, and at some stations, the full complement of workers have not reported for duty.over salary increases – the union demanded a 15% increase, which the utility company previously said it could not afford.

The possibility of stage 6 load-shedding has not been confirmed as yet. However, should it reach that point it means that the power could be out for 6 hours during the day. Jan Oberholzer, COO at Eskom, said that should the protest persist load-shedding could reach stage 8. “Should this unlawful action continue, and if people are selfish – the risk will increase. We may be approaching a higher stage of load shedding if this unlawful action continues. Human capacity is important and people can only work so much under constraints,” Oberholzer said.“I believe we do have damage at some power stations. Some equipment, like the coal conveyor system. We haven’t had the opportunity to quantify what it is.

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