{"id":670655,"date":"2023-03-06T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=670655"},"modified":"2023-03-06T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:28:13","slug":"load-shedding-back-at-stage-5-heres-the-updated-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/670655\/load-shedding-back-at-stage-5-heres-the-updated-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding back at stage 5 &#8211; here&#8217;s the updated schedule for the rest of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom says that load shedding will be pushed back up to stage 5 on Monday following the failure of five generating units.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 5 load shedding will be implemented from 16h00 on Monday (6 March) until 05h00 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After that, stage 4 load shedding will be implemented until 16h00; thereafter, it will move back to stage 5.<\/p>\n<p>The stage 4 and 5 rotation will continue until further notice, Eskom said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, 6 March<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 4: 00h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 16h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 7 March\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 15h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 8 March\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 15h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 9 March\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 5: 00h00 to 05h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: 05h00 to 16h00<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: 15h00 to 00h00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With load shedding pushed to stage 5 on Monday, president Cyril Ramaphosa will be announcing his new cabinet changes to a population largely in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>The presidency has confirmed that Ramaphosa will be announcing the long-awaited changes, including introducing a new minister of electricity whose job it will be to deal with the ongoing load shedding and energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Despite promising to deal with the energy crisis with urgency, the president has waited almost an entire month to introduce the minister.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the government has declared the crisis a national state of disaster and gazetted wide-reaching regulations that will empower various departments to fast-track new generation builds and deal with different aspects of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>To date, however, no such actions have been taken.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has experienced near-permanent load shedding, mostly at stage 4 or higher, since September 2022. Load shedding has been implemented for 127 consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedules\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For people living in the major metros, load shedding schedules are available here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypower.co.za\/customers\/Pages\/Load_Shedding_Downloads.aspx\">City of Johannesburg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekurhuleni.gov.za\/residents\/load-shedding-schedules.html\">City of Ekurhuleni\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tshwane.gov.za\/?page_id=1124\">City of Tshwane\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.capetown.gov.za\/documentcentre\/Documents\/Procedures%2C%20guidelines%20and%20regulations\/Load_Shedding_All_Areas_Schedule_and_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Cape Town (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nelsonmandelabay.gov.za\/page\/loadshedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelson Mandela Bay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durban.gov.za\/pages\/residents\/load-shedding\">eThekwini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/centlec.co.za\/LoadShedding\/LoadSheddingDocuments\">Manguang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalocity.gov.za\/notice.php?id=4JVjjqq9G\">Buffalo City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For access to other load shedding schedules, Eskom has made them available on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/\">loadshedding.eskom.co.za.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smartphone users can also download the app EskomSePush to receive push notifications when load shedding is implemented, as well as the times the area you are in will be off.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/670343\/ramaphosa-ready-to-announce-new-minister-of-electricity-one-month-later\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ramaphosa ready to announce new minister of electricity \u2013 one month later<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakdowns push South Africa back to stage 5 load shedding on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":647437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-670655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670735,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670655\/revisions\/670735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}