The national power grid has been taking strain since yesterday, with Eskom increasing the status of load shedding up to 3a – the most severe being stage 3B, so we are a mere letter away from a rather serious problem.
At the moment we are sitting (un)pretty at Stage 2. Apart from it being a terrific excuse to braai, the City of Cape Town have formally issued measures to minimise load-shedding:
– Ensure that your cellphone is always fully charged when power is available.
– Ensure that your vehicle always has fuel in the tank since during power outages, petrol stations cannot pump fuel.
– Ensure that you have adequate cash as auto tellers cannot operate without electricity.
– Release automatic electric garage door mechanisms to allow you to gain access to your property during a power outage.
– Release electric security gates and switch to manual operation to avoid either being locked out or locked into your home.
– Keep temporary lighting, such as candles and electric torches readily available.
– Keep a torch (with fresh batteries) by your bedside at all times
– Obtain a small LP gas lamp, as they provide good quality lighting for a large area.
– Boil water and keep in hot water flasks for hot drinks for when the power is scheduled to be switched off.
– Use a thermal cover on tea pots and other pots and pans to keep hot drinks, soup and other hot meals warm.
– Prepare meals beforehand in readiness for periods when there will be power cuts.
– Obtain a stand-by bottled LP gas heating ring for essential cooking and to boil water for hot beverages.
– Keep adequate stocks of essential foodstuffs that do not need to be refrigerated.
– Keep refrigerator doors closed, as a power outage of up to four hours should not cause food spoilage, and a freezer should keep frozen food safe for at least a day.
– Most medication requiring refrigeration can be kept in a closed fridge for several hours without spoiling. To be sure about this, check with your doctor or pharmacist.
– Fill plastic containers with water, leaving some space inside each container for expansion during freezing in a deep-freeze or the freezer compartment of your fridge. This frozen water will help keep food cold during a power outage.
Here is the latest interactive load shedding map, as issued by the City. Use the tools on the map to increase the size for scrolling. Read more on the CoCT website here.
Cape Town Load Shedding Schedule 2015
Any reason why the Table View area isn’t coloured coded or numbered?
Coco its because this is for areas supplied by the City of Cape Town. Tableview is supplied directly by Escom. Go to the Gridwatch website from News24 and type in your area (Flamingo Vlei) and it will give you an accurate time of load shedding. We use it all the time. If Escom sticks to their stages it is very accurate.
Oliver Odendaal
Henley Steenekamp
Perfect, thanks Debbie Gillespie Holloway xxx
Rabelani Lidzhade Mamatho maybe you can follow this link to get the schedule for loadshedding
Yep ! Rather serious problem with idiots in control !!
Uiters kak die man
And it will not improve not in our lifetime anyway….
Die laat my terug verlang na die ou plaas dae….wil jy bad? Gaan light die donkie!!! Moes eerder daar gebly het….
https://www.facebook.com/loadshedapp
LoadShed is the way forward
Load shedding is serious. Incompetent fools
But it changes all the time. Yesterday it started as Stage 2, then went into Stage 3, and now its stage 1!!!!
Harrison ‘Blaqpoint’ Mudukuti Giovanni Theunissen Benson GullySaint Martin
Service delivery in this country is a joke. Not only does Eskom ask you, not to use their service, they even increase the tariffs and give you less value for your money. Imagine Pick ñ Pay gives you the specials of Checkers as you enter their doors and should you still consider buying your groceries there, they sell you off milk, rotten meat and broken eggs. Yet we just go back every Saturday… When a company has the monopoly, it is bound for doom.
We here in Diep River had our load shed at 6.00 this morning
Debby Gates
wont be long until were in the dark ages folks.
Paarl is not marked – guess we are not getting cut either.
wats the point? the retards at Eskom change the schedule all the time , the scheduled outages dont occur and when least expected there are outages – it`s what happens when you get a bunch of monkeys to run a public utility that should never have been privatised in frst place to maximise there bonuses and rediculous salarys at the expense of a nation.
This is not the latest schedule, as it’s yesterday’s date 15.4.2015. Plse check load shedding Cape Town’s website, for the daily & latest load shedding schedule.
Tracy-Leigh Abrahams Warren Smith
Zainap Fredericks Louw
Because it isn’t under City of Cape Town Electricity. It is fed directly from Eskom, the schedules are different.
Bulshoek ook loadshedding
Gelukkig fokkol van eksdom nodig
I still can’t understand bloubergstrand!!
Guys there is a load shedding app…