JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African state-owned utility Eskom said on Friday that it would reduce the level of scheduled power cuts over the weekend and that more outages were probable next week.
Eskom said in a statement that electricity cuts would be lowered from the current “Stage 5” to “Stage 4” on Saturday morning at 0500 local time (0300 GMT), until 0500 local time on Sunday.
They will then be lowered to “Stage 3” until 0500 local time on Monday.
“The capacity constraints will persist throughout next week, and current indications are that load-shedding will be implemented at Stage 3 for most of the week,” Eskom added, using a term for power outages.
This year is set to see a record amount of electricity shed from the grid in Africa’s most industrialised nation, choking economic growth and fuelling public frustration.
(Reporting by Anait MiridzhanianEditing by Alexander Winning)
