Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says he was not aware of Eskom implementing stage 8 load-shedding last week.
on Monday on the sidelines of the ANC's national working committee meeting in Polokwane, Ramokgopa remained firm that stage 6 is the highest load-shedding stage implemented thus far.
“I want to say that such information is not sitting with me. I have been engaging Eskom. We had a meeting with the board, me and [public enterprises minister] Pravin Gordhan early last week with regard to the winter plan because we are anticipating that the demand is going to rise significantly from the now 30,000MW to up to 37,000MW.
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