POLOKWANE – Load shedding has become a reality once again for South Africans and while it may be frustrating for everyone, it is beneficial to understand how it works so you can plan around it and not be left in the dark.

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As South Africa’s primary electricity supplier, Eskom’s mandate is to ensure security of supply to South Africans.

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The power utility generates, transports and distributes electricity and this is managed for the entire country. However, Eskom only directly supplies more than five million households which means that most of us are supplied by municipalities.

According to Eskom, load shedding, or load reduction, is conducted across the country as a “controlled option to respond to unplanned events to protect the electricity power system from a total blackout.”

“If more load needs to be shed than has been scheduled in Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 then National Control will instruct additional, unscheduled load shedding. This means you may be shed outside of your scheduled times,” Eskom says.

Loadshedding schedules can be found on the Polokwane Municipality’s social media pages, alternatively, you can find them below:

Here are Polokwane’s loadshedding schedules

Here is Mokopane’s load shedding schedule

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