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South Africa: Eskom Faces Major Legal Fight Over Planned Power Cuts
allAfrica, 17 January 2023
The beginning of 2023 has seen a worsening of scheduled power outages in South Africa after beleaguered national utility Eskom announced it would continue its worst-ever outages… Read more »
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South Africa: National Shutdown Threat in Protest Against Eskom's Rolling Blackouts and Tariff Hikes
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South Africa: Electricity Tariff Hike 'Another Blow for Hard-Pressed South Africans'
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Eskom Faces Major Legal Fight Over Power Cuts in South Africa
The beginning of 2023 has seen a worsening of scheduled power outages in South Africa after beleaguered national utility Eskom announced it would continue its worst-ever outages indefinitely.
The power outages, when at Stage 6, left most South Africans without power for six to eight hours per day, but hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would not be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Eskom moved South Africans to Stage 4.
According to a report from Rapport newspaper, several organizations in South Africa have threatened to file legal action against Eskom due to the negative effects of frequent load-shedding and the utility's unwillingness to offer a thorough plan to deal with the cyclical power cuts.
InFocus
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Eskom Group's chief executive officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter has resigned as the country suffers worsening loadshedding (planned power cuts). According to Daily Maverick< Read more »
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Power utility Eskom has been at the centre of South Africa's energy woes for more than a decade. The entity has been plagued by mismanagment, the breakdown of infrastructure at ... Read more »
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National power utility Eskom has warned that the nation may face an additonal six to 12 months of load shedding. In a statement, the power utility said these plans would remove ... Read more »
