The city councils of Cape Town and Johannesburg have both deployed additional personnel to ensure the speedy resolution of outages and faults, especially during peak hours, following Eskom’s announcement that it is implementing Stage 6 loadshedding as of December 7.
The State-owned power utility has warned of scheduled blackouts of up to 12 hours a day as energy capacity drops owing to lagging repairs at its fleet of coal-fired power stations.
