ESKOM ISSUES MEDIUM LOAD SHEDDING PROGNOSIS FOR MONDAY

For Eskom‚ the ‘regular' in the "regular updates on the status of the power system through all the media platforms" more often than not seems to refer to their wording rather the intervals they appear at. But Monday was notably different. After days of outages following the issuing of near-standard forecasts of a high "load shedding prognosis…for the evening"‚ Monday night's outlook is‚ according to the power utility's Twitter account‚ "medium". Eskom did‚ however‚ revert to type on its website‚ where it released a statement with the by-now common introduction: "The power system is currently stable‚ enabling Eskom to perform maintenance without load shedding." This‚ if the last week is taken a yardstick‚ points to load shedding being likely as the same announcements then preceded later alerts of outages..