{"id":75352,"date":"2014-12-07T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=75352"},"modified":"2014-12-07T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T06:54:04","slug":"eskom-load-shedding-update-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/75352\/eskom-load-shedding-update-for-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom load-shedding update for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom warned on Sunday (7 November) that\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 8am &#8211; 10pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It follows Stage 3\u00a0power cuts across the country through to\u00a010pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility pointed to\u00a0depleted water and diesel reserves, and technical problems at its power stations as the cause for continued blackouts. Two generators also required urgent maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1\u00a0allowed for up to 1000MW of the national load to be shed, Stage 2\u00a0for up to 2000MW and Stage 3\u00a0for up to 4000MW.<\/p>\n<p>The group dismissed rumours\u00a0of a toal blackout on Saturday. &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The social media viral message of a total blackout is not true. Load shedding will continue in stage 3 until about 10pm tonight.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Load-shedding is done nationally on a rotational basis. This is either for 4 hours, 3 hours or 2 hours depending on your schedule,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The load-shedding schedule for your area can be found via the following websites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskom.co.za\/Pages\/loadsheddingmunic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.eskom.co.za<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loadshedding.eskom.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.loadshedding.eskom.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom Stage 3 load-shedding until 10pm\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75320\/eskom-stage-3-load-shedding-until-10pm\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eskom Stage 3 load-shedding until 10pm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Weekend power cuts coming: Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75200\/weekend-power-cuts-coming-eskom\/\"><strong>Weekend power cuts coming: Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom starts countrywide blackouts, again\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75192\/eskom-starts-countrywide-blackouts-again\/\"><strong>Eskom starts countrywide blackouts, again<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom warned on Sunday that Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 8am &#8211; 10pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":69001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-75352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75352","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=75352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75356,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75352\/revisions\/75356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}