South Africa is going to stage 6 load-shedding

The City of Cape Town has announced that Eskom will increase load-shedding to stage 6 from 16:00 on Wednesday.

This comes after it maintained stage 5 load-shedding this morning instead of reducing rotational power cuts to stage 3 as initially planned.

Stage 6 is scheduled to continue until 05:00 tomorrow morning, dropping to stage 5 again until 16:00. This pattern is set to repeat until Friday.

Load-shedding notification app EskomSePush has already sent an alert to users about the schedule change.

It warns the schedule is “subject to rapid change.”

However, Eskom has yet to confirm the escalation in power cuts.

MyBroadband has contacted the utility for comment and will update this article if we receive feedback.

Cape Town says it will protect its residents as far as possible with one or two stage of load-shedding.

Residents of the Mother City will experience stage 4 load-shedding between 05:00 and 22:00, escalating to stage 6 between 22:00 and 05:00.

SOURCE:South Africa is going to stage 6 load-shedding (mybroadband.co.za)