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Load-shedding, no load-shedding – who knows?

Disparities between the Eskom and Steve Tshwete Municipal schedules have left residents in the dark.

According to the latest press release, we are to expect stage three load-shedding for today.

From the one angle, that means a power cut from 09:00 to 11:30 but according to the STLM schedule, we won’t have any load-shedding today?
The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

Small holding residents on the Stoffberg road plots have complained about a full day of no electricity.

A resident, Brenda van Wyk tells of how they were plunged into darkness yesterday from 08:00 in the morning to 16:00 in the afternoon.
At 19:00 yesterday evening, their supply was cut again.

Eskom and Steve Tshwete Local Municipality have forewarned on multiple occassions that the roster may change at any given moment.
That is no lie.

For now, we’ll just have to feel our way through the dark.

•Electricity went off according to the Eskom schedule at 9:00.

 

 

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Sjani Campher

Sjani has been working as a community journalist and photographer at the Middelburg Observer since 2018, during which she has been responsible for the content creation for both digital and print, as well as maintaining the publication's online platforms. She is a member of the Forum for Community Journalists, and focuses on fields including hard news, investigative reporting, human interest, columns and sports.
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