Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will cut 5 000 megawatts of power from the grid from 16:00 on Sunday until 5:00 on Monday, instead of 4000 megawatts, it said in a statement on Twitter. The utility will thereafter cut 4 000 megawatts from the grid until 4 p.m. It will then repeat the pattern until further notice, it said.
Energy Minister’s powers assigned President Cyril Ramaphosa has now allocated a range of powers to his electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to enable him to address the nation’s energy crisis, almost three months after appointing him.