South Africans have taken to social media to express their irritation and dread at the fact that load-shedding is back after more than 10 months without the energy cuts.
On Friday Electricity and Energy Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told the country that the breakdown of six units meant a return to load shedding after more than 300 days without load shedding.
“This is a temporary setback and I am sure that we can announce the end of load shedding at the end of March once we add 2 500 Megawatts (MW) to capacity,” he said.
The minister apologised to the South Africans.
“I want to issue a profuse apology for the return of load shedding, but we are within touching distance of calling an end to load shedding,” he said.
Here are what South Africans are saying on X
eskom on its way to stage 4 loadshedding, and me , im still stuck in the talking stage
— Mohamed Sameer Hoosain (@M_Sameer_H) February 1, 2025
How’s that diesel you burning non stop going? Burning billions of Rands, to supplement incompetence? Let’s not forget Eskom supplied half the continent at one point with electricity
— The_Angry_Dwarf (@Keegz_c) February 1, 2025
The job of Eskom is to supply electricity, if u r not doing ur job consistently, howon earth do u deserve a performance bonus. We living in a clown world
Wait is @Eskom_SA going to implement blackouts during the biggest soccer game in the country, and you say black people are not being deliberately provoked? It's like @MYANC of @CyrilRamaphosa wants to see how far they can push black people, without consequences. We see you.
— Ziphezihle Mngoma (@Mngom4Mngoma) February 1, 2025
So now we are back at this crap again......what has been done this far as increasing capacity? O yes that cannot be done since it is one of the non negotiables of getting the debt transferred to government. No money can be spent on expansion. Please ask the private sector
— Kobus Vermeulen (@kobusv1974) February 1, 2025
EskomSePush is back
Another reality many South Africans have had to deal with is the fact that they have to download the load-shedding push notification application called EskomSePush.
The founders of the app Dan Southwood-Wells, and Herman Maritz, never imagined that the service would still be in use and even more popular more than a decade later.
The app was launched in 2014.
The app also decided to post the fact that it was back after almost a year without load-shedding.
— EskomSePush (ESP) (@EskomSePush) January 31, 2025
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