Months of ‘intensified’ rolling blackouts coming, says Ramokgopa – and we’re stuck with Stage 6 for the week

We need a journalist to interview this man and hold him to account for all his predications/promises. His answers could be very interesting/puerile .

We can now see the result of the BRICS summit where units were run hard so as not to have a high level of load shedding while all so called dignitaries and their retinues were staying here. We are now paying another price, in addition to the cost of staging the event.

"In response to questions about the resurgence of higher stages of power cuts after the BRICS Summit last month, Nxumalo said Eskom did not “run the units harder for BRICS” in an effort to ease load shedding over that period." Really?

I hope to see the end of loadshedding in my life time

I thought de Ruyter failed due to cultural differences, now it appears Ramakgopa succeeded thanks to support from an ever shrinking tax base. Let's hope the price of corruption will be paid in the end.

From News 24: "The Mozambican government wants answers from President Cyril Ramaphosa's administration as to why there has been no movement from Eskom on the 100MW of electricity that the country agreed to give South Africa to help alleviate load shedding."

What a total load of rubbish once more! Eskom tactics are banana ? republic - Eskom is not fit for purpose.. ?

"Over time Eskom’s generating units have been exploited because of a lack of investment in planned maintenance, owing to the utility’s balance sheet being “severely compromised”, he said. " And who did this to South Africa? This must be laid squarely at the ruling party's door. It started long before the 9 wasted years under Zuma, when the need for additional power capacity was raised by the then experts but ignored by government. And then it intensified with the eye of ESKOM executives being kept on the EAF statistics rather than carrying out planned maintenance that would have impacted those numbers. And then there was the loss of skilled staff as the result of cadre deployment. Let's get real. Load shedding will be with us through next year as well. Living in Cape Town, we have lower levels because of a well-managed city which is actively cutting red tape to get solar onto people's roofs - our complex has just installed 72 kWp to reduce our load on the city grid and storage to keep critical services running in our blocks - and the Province adding renewables as quickly as possible to supplement baseload support.

Does anyone remember the bizarre claim that when cold weather set in, there would be no problem? Unless something had been done to address the underlying issues how could that be true? The only way that could work would be if maintenance was neglected and that has to catch up with you. So no big surprise. Until the fundamental problems are addressed, any short-term wins are unlikely to last. If you can afford it get solar and batteries. But do your homework and get a good system, properly installed.

Why has this maintenance been left so late? The ANC government was warned of this years ago and told to keep up with appropriate maintenance schedules. Shame on them for leaving SA in such a mess. Shame, shame, shame!