UPDATE: Stage 6 load shedding will continue till Friday morning , embattled power utility Eskom confirmed on Wednesday evening. The latest update came after Eskom was forced to escalate rolling blackouts from Stage 4 on Wednesday morning to stage 6 from noon. For all our Eskom coverage click here.
Eskom had earlier said the further escalation from stage 4 to stage 6 is due to a high number of breakdowns at its power plants since midnight, alongside the requirement to strictly preserve the remaining emergency generation reserves. Read:South Africa heads for longest stretch of power cuts yet Nondumiso Lehutso is a Moneyweb intern.
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Planned power cuts moved to stage 4Embattled power utility Eskom ramped up load shedding to stage 4 early on Wednesday morning.
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