South Africans Left Without Answers as Blackouts Drag On
- Eskom’s operations are at ‘crisis’ level, chairman says
- Utility to implement seventh day of power cuts on Wednesday
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South Africans looking for signs of an end to the latest round of power cuts were left disappointed after the minister responsible for utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said he doesn’t have answers yet.
The country will on Wednesday face its seventh day of rotating blackouts -- needed to avoid a total grid collapse -- as the state-owned company struggles to bring faulty generating units back online. Eskom will cut 2,000 megawatts from the grid from 11 p.m. on Tuesday until 9 a.m. on Wednesday, when it will escalate that to 4,000 megawatts.