{"id":87462,"date":"2015-05-16T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=87462"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:29:07","slug":"saturday-load-shedding-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/87462\/saturday-load-shedding-all-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday load shedding all day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that Stage 1 load shedding will be implemented from 07:00 until 22:00 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said on Friday that the risk of a total blackout was lower than it was a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom\u2019s general manager of the national electricity system operator, Robbie van Heerden, said the transmission network has been strengthened, and there is heightened awareness and contingency plans in place to avoid a blackout scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Public Enterprises Lynne Brown further ruled out the privatisation of basic services \u2013 such as the provision of electricity and water \u2013 and said load shedding will continue for three more years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Load-shedding-to-begin-at-0700-20150516\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/87178\/eskom-price-hike-decision-in-june\/\"><strong>Eskom price hike decision in June<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/87024\/eskoms-greed-will-lead-to-bankruptcy\/\"><strong>Eskom\u2019s greed will lead to bankruptcy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has announced that Stage 1 load shedding will be implemented all day on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":79083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,1],"tags":[25,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-87462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462","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=87462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87824,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462\/revisions\/87824"}],"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=87462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}