Dundee was plunged into darkness for over an hour this morning as Eskom introduced rolling black outs.  The clattering of generators indicated that some businesses had prepared for the inevitable.

Power on in Glencoe.  The situation is expected to continue until early April and could be off ‘anytime from Monday to Saturday from 6am to 10pm”

“Eskom started implementing rotational load shedding from 08:00 this morning according to the published load shedding schedules available at https://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/ for Eskom customers. Municipal customers need to contact their own municipalities for the correct schedules. Eskom customers can also contact our customer call centre on 0860 037 566.
Eskom calls on consumers to urgently switch off geysers, pool pumps and all non-essential appliances throughout the day to further reduce the impact of rotational load shedding.
“We anticipate that we will be load shedding until 22:00 tonight. However, should we receive the necessary savings from all our customers and the situation improves, we will terminate load shedding earlier,’ said Eskoms’ Sarias Bemias.
Eskom had declared an emergency at 06:00 this morning and asked key industrial customers to reduce load by 10%.