Another round of loadshedding hits the country

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Stage 2 loadshedding started today at 10am and continue until 10pm on Friday, after breakdowns at the Majuba and Arnot powers stations and the delays in returning units at Arnot and Tutuka power stations to service.

“The emergency generation reserves have been used extensively in the past days to avoid loadshedding during the day. This has resulted in these being depleted, reducing available capacity. It is, therefore, necessary to implement loadshedding continuously until Friday night at 22:00 in order to replenish the emergency reserves,” Eskom said in a statement.