Africa is joined by Professor Hartmut Winkler, Energy Analyst and Physicist at University of Johannesburg to reflect on Eskoms media briefing.

Eskom held a media briefing on Thursday afternoon addressing the media and public on its system challenges. The power utility says that it is hopeful that load shedding might drop to stage 3 over the weekend.

Eskom’s head of generation Thomas Conradie said load shedding should decrease further to stage 4 on Friday and then hopefully to stage 3.

As it stands, Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented on Friday from 05:00 while Stage 3 loadshedding will be implemented on Saturday morning from 05:00