Loadshedding returns after festive season: What is the outlook for 2024?

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Over the festive season we had the welcome gift of no loadshedding, but alas all good things come to an end.

As we welcomed in the new year, Eskom announced that loadshedding would resume on 2 January 2024.

This comes after 18 days of suspended power cuts.

John Maytham speaks with Chris Yelland, Energy Expert.

This interview originally aired on 2 January 2024.

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5 thoughts on “Loadshedding returns after festive season: What is the outlook for 2024?”

  4. Anyone who believes that loadshedding is over are not only delusional but trust in blind faith and faith in eskom government and the ability of this new minister of electricity and loadshedding being over deserve to be left in the dark, well done on the second of the new year of 2024, what did tbe country expect, different year same old shiet,

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  5. Wish the objecting and critical voices could have been raised during Apartheid. During that period of 46yrs no or very little planning was made for the electrification of Black areas. The Apartheid Gov. was very happy that Black people would basically grow up in the dark. This darkness did not only apply to Electricity but to all walks of life. The denial of electricity had far reaching NEGATIVE effects on the aspirations and desires of Black and Brown people. It's fine for the beneficiaries of Apartheid – who most whites now claim , they did not support, who now mock and smirk at what they believe to be Black incompetence and /or negligence . However most of the blame must be laid at the door of those Colonialists / Segregationalist who only looked after the interest of the whites – denying basics rights to those who most needed it – Blacks. Stop using Apartheid as as excuse you say. ? It's an atrocity that killed the Spirit of many millions of black people. The Psychological damage that was done cannot be overestimated and destroyed millions more lives that The Holocaust, tragically, ever did . Lest we forget. It was declared a Crime Against Humanity by a Majority WHITE Court. I grew up in SA ( born 1947 ) under the yoke of Apartheid and with a fluctuating Electricity supply because my parents could not , on most days, afford electricity. Karma is now giving White South Africans , a little taste of how denial of privileges can NEGATIVE impact on the Human Psyche. I'm not just a bit bitter. I'm also bloody sad that those who had the power to share , EFFED UP so badly and chose the evil of Greed above Equality of Humanity. It will take many more years , if ever, to repair the damage caused by hatred, racism and bigotry. Unfortunately I will not see the day when true Freedom reigns – including the ECONOMIC FREEDOM which was so flagrantly , deliberately omitted at Kempton Park . Without Economic Freedom ,there is no true freedom as the money, – the true power – remained predominantly in the hands of the white Oppressors and a few of their Black lackeys and flunkeys.

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