Latest power cuts caused by technical issues - Ramokgopa

JOHANNESBURG - Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has clarified that the latest bout of load shedding was not a result of sabotage. 

He made this statement while addressing the media on Sunday on Eskom’s decision to implement load shedding.

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Eskom initially implemented stage three load shedding on Saturday, which was escalated to stage six due to the loss of multiple generation units at the Majuba and Camden power stations.

Ramokgopa explained that the outages were caused by technical issues and urged the public to avoid spreading misinformation about the situation.

"The evidence before us is that this is a technical issue and we are going to explain it. I’m making this point because we must not find any reason to manufacture explanations of why we are at stage six and point fingers somewhere else. We are the ones who bear the responsibility and we are the ones who are going to illustrate to you how we are going to get out of this very difficult position."