When it was announced that load shedding would be suspended over the past weekend, a lot of South African’s wondered what made this possible? Others said that the then anticipated EFF #NationalShutdown protest had force the ANC’s hand to put pressure on Eskom to suspend planned power outages in hopes of lessening the potential blow of the strike. This despite Eskom’s statement on Friday that indicated a recovery in some generation capacity during the week. Today, we want to understand how in South Africa, we can go from no load shedding, to stage 3 all in space of a few days.

Bertha Dlamini, Energy Expert and Founding President of African Women in Energy and Power and Professor Mark Swilling, Programme Coordinator of the Sustainable Development Programme in the School of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University join Lerato Mbele to clarify the current electricity situation.