City of Tshwane Utility Services MMC Daryl Johnston says constantly switching the electricity on and off for Stage 6 loadshedding gives the electrical team "significantly less time" to work on repairs and maintenance. Johnston was responding to the implementation of Stage 6 loadshedding "until further notice" on Wednesday. Ailing power utility Eskom said "severe capacity constraints" meant it would need to rely on emergency generation reserves. On Thursday, Johnston said Stage 6 loadshedding severely impacted the City's electricity infrastructure. "Eskom has again announced that it would raise loadshedding to Stage 6 from [21:00] last night (Wednesday) going on overnight each day from [16:00] in the afternoon until [05:00] the next morning until further notice. "They've also subsequently increased that to Stage 6 permanently. Raised levels of loadshedding are a crisis for our municipality, affecting both the condition of our electricity network as well as the ability to attend to outages."
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