EDITORIAL | SA faces a bleak load-shedding outlook for months to come

The cold stark reality is that the energy crisis bad, and it’s going to get worse this winter

18 May 2023 - 22:15

What we can assume from the figures released by Eskom on Thursday is that stage 6 load-shedding will be SA’s default position going into winter, increasing to higher stages with every unplanned outage and unit breakdown — but unlikely to ever really dip below that debilitating bar...

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