Power Cuts Resume in South Africa After Three-Week Respite
- Eskom will cut 2,000MW off grid from Tuesday until Sept. 10
- Statistics office data show economy shrank in second quarter
Employees work at a generator-powered sewing machine during a power outage period in Cape Town, South Africa.
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South Africa announced its first rolling blackouts in almost three weeks on Tuesday, hours after the nation’s statistics office published data that showed the economy contracted in the second quarter when was hit by record power outages.
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will implement so-called stage-2 loadshedding, where it cuts 2,000 megawatts from the grid, until Sept. 10, it said on Twitter. If the utility sticks to these plans, it will bring the total days of blackouts in the third quarter to 34.