By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Energy analysts believe President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to announce positive strides being made by government in mitigating load shedding when he delivers the State of the Nation Address (SONA) tonight. This is despite the last weekends stage three blackouts after 10 months without power cuts. Research Associate at the Energy Systems Research Group at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Hilton Trollip says the weekends load shedding did not come as a surprise, given his observations of Eskom data. Trollip says while the over 300 days without load shedding is a step in the right direction, given the ageing infrastructure - there is likely to be more load shedding before it's over...

<p>By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Energy analysts believe President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to announce positive strides being made by government in mitigating load shedding when he delivers the State of the Nation Address (SONA) tonight. This is despite the last weekends stage three blackouts after 10 months without power cuts. Research Associate at the Energy Systems Research Group at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Hilton Trollip says the weekends load shedding did not come as a surprise, given his observations of Eskom data. Trollip says while the over 300 days without load shedding is a step in the right direction, given the ageing infrastructure - there is likely to be more load shedding before it's over...</p>

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