The police fired rubber bullets to disperse a group of Aloevale residents who protested outside the town hall on Wednesday evening, blocking traffic on the N6 with burning tyres after the electricity infrastructure was damaged by a storm…
Load-shedding has been extended to Stage 4, power utility Eskom has confirmed. “We are currently load shedding in State 4 due to high demand or urgent maintenance being performed at certain power stations,” reads a statement on the power…
Residents and business owners were livid over power outages that affected most areas in Komani. The Rep reported (‘Electricity woes as winter creeps in’, July 5 2019) that an oil purification process which cost the Enoch Mgijima Local…
Rotational rolling blackouts resumed on Thursday as Eskom technicians attended to breakdowns at several of its generating units in SA. Stage 2 load-shedding started at 9am and was expected to last until 10pm. While consumers and business…
While a power outage affecting Khayelitsha in Komani drags on towards the end of the week, it is not yet clear when the problem will be resolved. The Rep reported earlier this week that the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality had reported…
