4 July 2022
eThekwini Municipality is expected to face load shedding from next month. The municipality has been “exempt” from the current rolling blackouts following back-to-back floods in April and May.
Speaking to eNCA on Monday, head of electricity in the city Maxwell Mthembu explained that, technically, the municipality was not exempted from load shedding.
He said due to the significant damage to infrastructure, the city wrote a letter to Eskom and a decision was taken to leave eThekwini out of load shedding. However, this is expected to change by July 15.
He said talks were under way to put new load shedding in place without causing further damage to infrastructure in eThekwini.
In terms of eThekwini’s damage, Mthembu said it will take three years to fix damaged sub-stations.
He explained that some sub-stations were extremely compromised and it will take three years to repair or in some cases, build from scratch.
Meanwhile, Eskom has implemented stage 6 load shedding from Monday with varying stages of load shedding for the rest of the week.
Monday (4 July)
Stage 2 load shedding from 00h00 to 05h00
Stage 4 load shedding from 05h00 to 16h00
Stage 6 load shedding from 16h00 to 22h00
Stage 4 load shedding from 22h00 to 00h00
Tuesday (5 July)
Stage 2 load shedding from 00h00 to 05h00
Stage 4 load shedding from 05h00 to 16h00
Stage 5 load shedding from 16h00 to 22h00
Stage 4 load shedding from 22h00 to 00h00
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