Eskom says no load shedding predicted for summer

JOHANNESBURG - Eskom insists there will be no load shedding this summer. 

The utility released its summer outlook plans, assuring that electricity stability is better now than it was going into winter. 

It said it has recorded only twenty-six hours of load shedding during the winter period. 

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Speaking at a briefing on Friday, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa stressed that the end of load shedding is imminent. 

"There will not be loadshedding in terms of our summer outlook. We are no more within touching distance, that’s the word i was using. We are touching it, the end of loadshedding. So touching distance and touching it, those are two different things."