According to an SMS sent out by the Ekurhuleni metro at 12.43 this afternoon: “Due to load shedding by Eskom, the following areas are without power: parts of Germiston, Bedfordview, Kempton Park, Benoni, Springs, Brakpan, Nigel. The country is currently in Stage 3 of the load shedding protocol, which means that Eskom is remotely controlling the power supply from the national grid. Residents are therefore advised to listen out for announcements by Eskom. The EMM (Ekurhuleni metro municipality) will also update its social network sites as often as possible.
This means that the metro has no control over load shedding or when various suburbs will experience power outages.
For details residents can visit Eskom’s load shedding site for more details. However, at this stage the site does not offer a comprehensive schedule other than to note that as we are in Stage 3, up to 4 000 MW must be shed which will entail 24 hours of load shedding between 6am and 10.30pm from Monday to Saturday.
The site states that this situation will continue from today until
Escom up to chit no power in geduld springs now I must through away meat of R800 becos of no power for 3 days