Details of the offer have not been released by the unions.The power utility has offered a 7% wage increase across the board, which unions are now taking to its members.further losses in generation capacity amid the ongoing impact of labour unrest and maintenance backlogs.
Stage Four rolling blackouts will continue until 10PM on Sunday night. The NUM’s Spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu says they expect the situation to normalise. “We expect the situation to normalise after this offer by Eskom. Eskom presented the new offer of 7% across the board. They also gave us the housing allowance of 00 so those are some of the key issues that they have agreed.”Meanwhile, Johannesburg’s City Power has warned residents that some areas will be without power for up to four hours instead of two hours under stage six blackouts.
City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says these are the undesirable effects of power cuts that everyone has to live with until Eskom’s capacity challenges are resolved. “Load shedding stage six is really causing shocks and challenges for City Power and our customers. According to Eskom’s schedule, we have realised that during the higher stages of load shedding, especially stage six or eight should we get there, there will be customers in some blocks who will be shed for 4 hours instead of the 2 hours that we normally load shed people. It also means that customers should brace themselves to be load shed for three or four times daily.
Electricity problem was there b4 the strike. I’m so disappointed in NUM_Media for blaming workers for a problem that is a not associated with them. NUM_Media is selling out workers.
And some numsa spokesperson says we can't blame the strike?
I guess it is as it appears . Men greed for wealth but what's hidden shall be seen very soon
Normal? So stage 2?
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So it is actually true that workers are part of the problem in ESKOM.