Eskom has reduced power cuts to stage 4 on Wednesday morning after a brutal night of stage 6 power cuts which were implemented abruptly, with less than an hour s notice.
Eskom said that the current pattern of stage 2 power cuts in the morning and stage 3 from the late afternoon will continue for the remainder of the week.
Eskom said that the escalation was necessary so that work could be done to replenish the dam levels at the pumped storage power station to avail more capacity for Wednesday.