{"id":85634,"date":"2015-04-20T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=85634"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:50:29","slug":"stage-1-load-shedding-kicks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/85634\/stage-1-load-shedding-kicks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 1 load shedding kicks in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 1 load shedding will take place from 17:00 on Monday, the ninth consecutive day it has cut power from the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1 load shedding means that 1 000MW needs to be cut from the grid and the shortened hours means the effect of load shedding will be isolated to households scheduled to go out between 17:00 and 22:00, when the load shedding will end.<\/p>\n<p>A business director has responded to load shedding by giving his staff a challenge, explaining that in South Africa &#8220;earth hour is now every hour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fin24 user Peter du Preez said that \u201crather than burying our heads in the sand, I\u2019ve challenged my employees this morning to create a campaign within our company of \u2018Going Old School\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/Monday-load-shedding-about-to-start-20150420\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/Monday-load-shedding-about-to-start-20150420\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why Molefe was chosen to lead Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85325\/why-molefe-was-chosen-to-lead-eskom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Molefe was chosen to lead Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85231\/eskom-weekend-load-shedding\/\">Eskom weekend load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Joburg averts Eskom load shedding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85177\/joburg-averts-eskom-load-shedding\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Joburg averts Eskom load shedding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that stage 1 load shedding will take place on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164,26,1165],"class_list":["post-85634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634","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=85634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85636,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634\/revisions\/85636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}