As South Africans battle stage 4 power cuts, Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is confident the embattled power utility will overcome the latest load-shedding bout by the end of this week.

Stage 6 load-shedding was reduced to stage 4 at 00:30, with Eskom’s announcement stating it will continue ‘until further notice’.

The dreaded load-shedding return was attributed to multiple unit trips, which the utility states was ‘unconnected and purely technical’.

Eskom said a further update on the generation capacity woes will be given this afternoon.

Meanwhile, SA News reports that Ramokgopa remains confident that ‘we should be out of this difficult situation’ by the end of the week.

“We are confident we’re going to go to conditions of normality. By the end of the week, there will not be load-shedding. We would have gone through this wave and, of course, we want the country to get accustomed to being normal,” he said when briefing the media yesterday.

The minister also stated that despite recent setbacks, after achieving 300 consecutive days of uninterrupted power supply, he remains confident that the end of power cuts is near.

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