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Eskom is about to make a big electricity price increase – Here’s what you should expect

  Hey, I am glad you are here. Can you please support us by liking our Facebook page HERE South Africa get ready, electricity prices are expected to increase significantly after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) admitted to procedural mistakes in its revenue and regulatory account clearing decisions where they included a […]
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Gov wants more nuclear power on top of what’s already there

South Africa’s Government is drafting a plan to procure a nuclear power plant with an additional 2.5GW capacity within the next 5 years according to the Department of mineral resources and energy. South Africa currently has a single nuclear plant. Support for additional facilities largely faded after the ruling party forced Jacob Zuma to step […]
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Former Eskom engineers will work for free for the power utility

Eskom, South Africa’s power utility yesterday confirmed that it has received offers to work from a pool of its retired engineers. According to a thread of tweets posted by the power utility’s spokesperson, the engineers who have offered their services to the company are retirees, many of whom were previously employees at Eskom. Eskom can confirm […]
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Load shedding might or might not happen in winter, probability is low – Eskom

During the early days of lockdown, Eskom told South Africans that due to low demand that will be experienced during the span of the lockdown load shedding will not be a problem because there is already excess power due to industries closing their doors. [jnews_block_7 header_icon=”fa-newspaper-o” first_title=”Also Read” url=”https://upweeks.com/category/how-to/” header_filter_category=”10″ content_type=”post” number_post=”3″ include_category=”10″] The manufacturing […]
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Eskom will only focus on services they deem critical during Lockdown

Eskom has announced that it will focus on providing critical services during South Africa’s 21-day coronavirus lockdown. “Eskom will prioritize what we deem as critical services during the lockdown period due to limited resources,” the power utility stated. As a result, Eskom will prioritize its response to power failures or any emergencies posing a danger […]
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Eskom Load Shedding: Stage 1 effective this Monday.

Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 1 load-shedding from 09:00 until 23:00 on Monday 9 March 2020. The power utility said that load-shedding will likely continue until Thursday due to a number of unplanned breakdowns. “We regret to inform the country that starting from 09:00 tomorrow, Eskom will implement Stage 1 load-shedding until 23:00.” […]
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Soweto is one of the reasons why Eskom is going down the drain. Unlimited power for R150?

Soweto residents want to pay Eskom a flat rate of R150 per month for electricity and want their R18-billion debt scrapped. Soweto residents, led by City of Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo, marched to Eskom’s offices in Diepkloof to hand over their memorandum of demands. A community leader said Eskom must respond to their memorandum of […]
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More hours of blackouts are coming to South Africa.

Energy experts are warning South Africans they should prepare themselves for the worst, with regular stage 6 load-shedding and 10-hour daily blackouts. In December, Eskom implemented stage 6 load-shedding for the first time – which means the power utility needed to shed approximately 6,000MW. In practical terms its means that South African citizens and businesses […]
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Eskom has advice for you – Use Gas Lamps, charge your phone and stop Complaining

Experts believe that Eskom needs to implement permanent load-shedding for up to a year to sort out its power grid issues. As load-shedding is frustrating for South Africans – particularly those who have not prepared for the inevitability of power cuts – Eskom has published a fact sheet which outlines ways to be ready. Also Read: Eskom Load Shedding […]
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Eskom Load Shedding is back with Stage 2 already happening

Owing to an unanticipated conveyor belt failure at Medupi power station, the system is currently severely constrained and vulnerable,” Eskom stated. The power utility said although it was working on restoring the operation of several generation units, it needs to implement load-shedding throughout the night. Eskom claimed this was in order to replenish both the […]
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#ElectionDay: Trump vs Biden – American democracy under threat from Trump’s actions

President Donald J Trump has done a huge favor to the American people by rhetorically mentioning how he plans to flag the ongoing elections as rigged in the event that he loses against his Democrat opponent Joe Biden. Thursday night at the White House saw the Republican following up with a series of preposterous and […]
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#ElectionsDay2020: Why we don’t know the election results between Biden & Trump yet

Usually, the election results are announced on the election day as soon as counting is done and that’s not the case in 2020’s elections but that’s actually normal because there is no rule in the constitution that makes it mandatory for the results to be announced on election day. Looking at the CNN Election Map, […]
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#ElectionDay: Trump vs Biden – American democracy under threat from Trump’s actions

President Donald J Trump has done a huge favor to the American people by rhetorically mentioning how he plans to flag the ongoing elections as rigged in the event that he loses against his Democrat opponent Joe Biden. Thursday night at the White House saw the Republican following up with a series of preposterous and […]
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#ElectionsDay2020: Why we don’t know the election results between Biden & Trump yet

Usually, the election results are announced on the election day as soon as counting is done and that’s not the case in 2020’s elections but that’s actually normal because there is no rule in the constitution that makes it mandatory for the results to be announced on election day. Looking at the CNN Election Map, […]
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Vodacom has lost its operating Licence in Lesotho after the Communications Authority wrote to the Telecoms company that it had revoked its, “unified license”. According to the Lesotho Communications Authority, the decision to invoke Vodacom’s license was taken because Vodacom failed to pay a fine equivalent to R134 million for allegedly breaching legislation governing companies […]
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When Money Destroys Nations is a book authored by a guy named Philip Haslam who believes Zimbabwe urgently needs a decentralized currency system to solve the severe problems in its money and banking system. ZIMBOCASH is free to join Zimbabwean cryptocurrency and only available to Zimbabwean residents and Zimbabweans in the diaspora who have a […]
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