Stage 6: Load-shedding not due to sabotage, says Ramokgopa

By Akani Nkuna

Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has confidently assured the nation that load-shedding would come to an end by the close of the week.

This comes after the nation was thrust into Stage 6 load-shedding early on Sunday.

“I am confident that by the end of the week we should be out of this difficult situation… we are confident we are going to go to conditions of normality. What are those conditions of normality by the end of the week? Is that there will not be load-shedding,” Ramokgopa told reporters in Pretoria.

“We would have gone through this wave and of course… we want the country to get accustomed to being normal and in fact something called load-shedding should be considered extremely abnormal.”

Eskom’s national leadership, including the group chief executive officer (GCEO), Dan Marokane, also attended the media briefing. 

Ramokgopa emphasised that Eskom’s leadership has thoroughly