{"id":84847,"date":"2015-04-13T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=84847"},"modified":"2015-06-05T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:44:16","slug":"expect-more-load-shedding-eskom-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/84847\/expect-more-load-shedding-eskom-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect more load shedding: Eskom engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While construction workers continued their stay-away at Medupi power station on Monday, the risk of load shedding throughout the week was highly likely, according to Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>Construction workers continued their stay-away in solidarity with about 1 700 workers who were fired or faced disciplinary action following a March 25 strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) said.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Nhlapo, head of collective bargaining at Numsa, on Monday told Fin24 that Medupi\u2019s construction site was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Nhlapo said Numsa and Eskom\u2019s Medupi leadership were about to meet to discuss the situation, and that there would be an update at 16:00.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers told Eskom\u2019s leadership on Monday that the system would be highly constrained for the entire week due to planned and unplanned maintenance, Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe told Fin24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Expect-load-shedding-this-week-Eskom-20150413-3\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"What about the schools and hospitals, Eskom?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84833\/what-about-the-schools-and-hospitals-eskom\/\"><strong>What about the schools and hospitals, Eskom?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84773\/eskom-implements-stage-2-load-shedding\/\"><strong>Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While construction workers continued their stay-away at Medupi power station on Monday, the risk of load shedding throughout the week was highly likely, according to Eskom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":81815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-84847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84847","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89888,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84847\/revisions\/89888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}