Cape Town residents will have to pay close attention to the load shedding schedule released by the City on Tuesday afternoon to see when power cuts will affect them.
City of Cape Town investigating capacity before announcing load shedding stage
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Cape Town - The City of Cape Town customers will have to wait a while longer before finding out if they will be shielded from one stage of load shedding after Eskom announced Stage 2 load shedding on Tuesday.
The struggling power utility announced that load shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Tuesday until 5am on Wednesday, with a possibility of load shedding throughout the week.
The company said in a statement that the load shedding follows after breakdowns of generating units at Kriel, Arnot, Majuba and Tutuka Power Stations over the past 24 hours, as well as delays in returning units to service at Duvha and Tutuka Power Stations.
We don t need more restrictions, we need more vaccines, says CoCT s Vos City of Cape Town officials said that the current curfew imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus would negatively affect the work they had done to stabilise the city s economy. FILE: Two men enjoy some beers at a streetside bar in the city centre in Cape Town, on 18 August 2020 after South Africa moved to level 2 of the coronvirus lockdown. Picture: AFP
CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town wants national government to reconsider the lockdown curfew hours.
The country has moved to level 2 of the COVID-19 lockdown. The curfew now starts at 11 at night and ends at 4am.
OPINION: Ian Neilson writes that the City safely held 68 ward-based focus groups of community representatives on the budget across the metro and where residents weren’t able to attend in person they made use of services such as Skype.
People have been urged by the Cityof Cape Town to detail their concerns over homeless people and, once submitted, the form will be sent to the City's representatives.