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Eskom has confirmed the grid was close to stage 8 blackouts this week. On Wednesday, the power utility confirmed it had dipped into the zone for stage 7.

The power utility says they have not yet introduced higher stages of power cuts and are currently assessing the situation.

Eskom’s General Manager of Engineering, Thomas Conradie, says they will not introduce stage seven or eight without notifying the public.“We are just updating our schedules for higher stages of load shedding. We obviously from our side attempt every means of not reverting towards that stage. I must say that we were close to that earlier this week, it is finally balanced in terms of a number of factors, and therefore we need to manage it closely.

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Warming us up for stage 8,we see what you trying to do mxm!

ANC HAS CREATED THEIR OWN MONSTER.... AND IT'S COMING TO DESTROY THEM BADLY.... WHAT IS DONE IN THE DARK WILL EVENTUALLY COME TO LIGHT WITH CONSEQUENCES...

Stop stealing money and get ppl with brains to sort out this issue😡😡

One 🖕up government

Where will eskom get the money while people of soweto are using electricity for free.

Well Eskom's former Ceo will tell you why this is all happening☹️

No wonder when you leave street lights on all day!!!!!!

So De Ruyter was right? All he need to do now is to name the thieves.

Why don't Eskom employ qualified technicians instead of replacing the CEO

🤔🤔🤔🤯🤯🤯🙄🙄They only want us to get use to stage 6, like we did with stage 2 then stage 4. We think getting stage 2 is a privilege now... They must stop ✋ this game ANC Government..... sending Mbalula on this is just to make noise, doing more damage other side

Eish Eskom

When you confirm shit like this is it an apology or because you got caught out

How can they be so stupid to allow this to happen Lack of ingenuity and responsibility and having a couldn’t care less attitude. Happy to bring SA down to its needs. Ruthless. Government

It's a bunch of incompetent employees that is employed to maintain the power station all the employees with knowledge was given the fairwell pass That was the one reason they got rid of them the reason being then they could do the agenda off fraud and corruption

Just you vote for anc again…

Yes. After the mafia ANC Steal all the money. It was never bout the country. But the ANC.

This is what the anc did. It started when they stole cyrills money frm under his mattress, so he said lets hit them with loadshedding to keep the focus of cyrill and on loadshedding.

Eskom_SA GautengANC Is a literal joke at the moment.

GOD BLESS YOU.

Eskoms poes stage 8, they vriet 8 stages of our money with 8 stages of no service in any area of anything

Well done Eskom_SA I'm sure you will reach stage 8 soon. Congrats cunce!

They need to get their shit together. Destroying a great country 😡😡😡

Without the revenue from tax, the government can't do its job. The state needs your tax paid in rands to fund social and economic programmes, and to provide public goods and services, such as schools, universities, hospitals, clinics and roads, as well as defence and security

Can we better have someone to loadshadding with immediate effect after appointment.

All sabotage

Who confirmed this from Eskom?.. We are sick and tired to hear Eskom this and Eskom that. Lets replace Eskoms name with Anc and then everyone will understand.

I feel the general public kinda knew this before eskom did ,It's a shit comedy show that just gets worse

Such rubbish!!! Its all over tiktok how the coals are being sold for 10 cents etc... yet, we have to endure this damn loadshedding which is B.S!!!

Eskom Se poeshhh

Why didn't they implement stage 8, not that there is anything we can do.

We had no electricity since Thursday 8pm until sat morning 8am. Is that stage 7? More like stage 10..

Well done. You have done a great job. SA is gone with the wind. You have put so many people and business out of business. Just keep adding to the unemployment rate. Not that you care . Brilliant job

Poor management and no accountability concludes too

I wonder if ANC leaders actually read these tweets. If they did, they would realize how disliked they are by most people because of their incompetence. If this thread was an election Poll, they would lose outright.

Whatever Eskom. Vtsek!!!!!!

😏😏😏

Our country is dying right under our noses on ANC corrupt government.Oh God please help us it's too much👏😪😪

And before and during the E-Prix in Cape Town there was no loadshedding in that area.

And yet we had NO loadshedding at home on Thursday 🤷‍♀️

Poephols

South Africa 🇿🇦 is under the rule of clueless people and we as people we are subjected into this madness of clueless leaders

They only want us to get use to stage 6, like we did with stage 2 then stage 4. We think getting stage 2 is a privilege now...

Hey Ekom se P$s where is the president where is the new energy minister, SA is already in the dark for 12 hours a day, I hope the south Africans remember what's happening when it is election time.

Dipped se moer, we are still there.

EVEN STAGE 100 IS OK

That's why we had no power for over 14 hours 😢😢

Eskom_SA BECAUSE OF LONG FINGERS, BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION IN YOUR DEPARTMENT AND THE ANC.

To us it was STAGE 20.From 15:00 Thursday to 10:00 Friday morning. Thank you anc gvt. May ALMIGHTY see you

Black South Africa

State of disaster is working out well.

Eskom_SA how was DeRuyter making false claims if this is the state of the utility? MYANC you guys say the claims are baseless but look at Eskom

Re Ruyter is gone so why are still having load shedding?

How does this confirmation benefit the nation.

Stage 10...not 8

Amazing the that the timing coincides with the de Ruyter resignation...

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They use words like dip and loadshedding that why the nation is still sleeping😭😭😭😭

Eskom wants to make us believe, they did us a big favor...I am pretty sure just lies as every other thing they say. Wonder how many of them(eskom & government) is prepared to go without like us normal people. They then want electricity with their meetings...

As far as I'm concerned, we've been plunged into stage 8 a long time ago, unconfirmed 💯

We can survive even on Stage 20 now.....abawucishe manje siqaleni kabusha

And why bother telling the citizens

.............. and winter is just around the corner.......... those heaters..... this could be the blackout suspected to happen..... Deryter making an early exit....

Amandala, comrades!🤌🏾🤌🏾 Doing fine work, MYANC

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