Tshwane says Loadshedding cause of Damage to infrastructure

MMC for utilities and regional operations Daryl Johnston lamented the negative impact of the ongoing load shedding on the City’s infrastructure after Eskom announced that it would increase load shedding to stage 6. The stage meant that residents experienced rotational power outages two or three times a day in different parts of the country, and at times, for four hours.

Johnston said load shedding had a negative impact on municipal infrastructure and electricity networks, which were not designed to be continuously turned on and off.

He said increased levels of load shedding often resulted in a crisis for the municipality as this situation negatively affected the electricity network and the ability to attend to outages.

The rolling blackouts implemented by Eskom have been blamed for damaging municipal electricity infrastructure in Tshwane.

“It is important for residents to note that load shedding can result in additional outages due to high surges and overloading of the network, as well as vandalism and theft of City infrastructure,” Johnston said.