An energy expert has warned that the electricity crisis is likely to get worse as Eskom suffers near-record levels of unplanned outages.
Energy Expert Lungile Mashele says the power utility has over 19,000 megawatts unavailable due to breakdowns at power plants.
On Thursday the ailing parastatal escalated load-shedding to stage 6 which was last experienced in September.
Eskom says the increased loadshedding will continue until Friday morning at 5, thereafter it will be reduced to Stage 5
until Saturday morning.
Mashele says with so much capacity unavailable due to breakdowns it is clear the president's plan to solve the crisis has fallen flat.
She says 2022 was the worst year of loadshedding on record, larger than the other eight years, cumulative.
Mashele added that we were not seeing the fruits of President Cyril Ramaphosa's revised plan he laid out three months ago.
According to the popular App Eskom Se Push, South Africans were subjected to 3 214 hours of national loadshedding, which is the equivalent of 134 days.
