{"id":832770,"date":"2025-03-09T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/south-africa-faces-severe-power-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:12:49","slug":"south-africa-faces-severe-power-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/south-africa-faces-severe-power-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa faces severe power cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s power utility Eskom has announced controlled outages, cutting 3,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid due to what it called a &#8216;temporary setback.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>The measure, known as load shedding, follows similar cuts in January after nearly 10 months of uninterrupted power. <\/p>\n<p>Eskom said it would provide an update on Sunday but didn\u2019t specify the cause of the latest issues. The outages are often triggered by breakdowns at Eskom&#8217;s aging coal plants, which supply most of South Africa&#8217;s electricity. <\/p>\n<p>Load shedding is staged, with stage 1 cutting 1,000 MW, and stage 6 being the highest level. In the early hours of Sunday, Eskom escalated the cuts to stage 6 after multiple failures at power stations. <\/p>\n<p>They described the move as &#8216;essential&#8217; to replenish emergency reserves and prepare for the week ahead. This is the most severe power cut since November 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span \n                data-original-string='PJR7Zgr+xLib+gFxuO3opQ==7f4ZzzbKRnj8i+8KXc\/6mS90QE5I82963lY\/pEumbPcdJQ='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ed<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>ws.com<\/span> (R\u00e9daction Africanews)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2025\/02\/23\/south-africa-faces-severe-power-cuts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s power utility Eskom has announced controlled outages, cutting 3,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid due to what it called a &#8216;temporary setback.&#8217; The measure, known as load shedding, follows similar cuts in January after nearly 10 months of uninterrupted power. Eskom said it would provide an update on Sunday but didn\u2019t specify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2084,683],"tags":[14302,7070],"class_list":{"0":"post-832770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"category-south","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-south"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}