Stage 6 power cuts return on Tuesday

JOHANNESBURG - Eskom as announced that Stage 6 power cuts will return on Tuesday at 4pm.

Stage 3 rolling blackouts will continue on Monday until 5am Tuesday morning.

READ: SA's electricity crisis | Various stages of blackouts this week

Stage 4 will be from 5am until 4pm on Tuesday.

Eskom says it's lost almost 18,000 megawatts of generating capacity with a delay in returning nine generating units to service.

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Due to the delay in returning nine generating units to service, the stages of loadshedding will be escalated this week. pic.twitter.com/5cBlaCrLlM

— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) May 1, 2023