Up until recently I had no idea why the area I reside in doesn’t get hit with loadshedding. It seems that Newlands is exempt from it, and I’ve been curious as to why we should be so lucky.
A bunch of theories emerged about this, ranging from it being an athletic stone’s throw away from the President’s Cape Town residence of Genanendal, to the area’s ageing power grid being too delicate to switch on and off too often.
As it turns out, the area falls under regulation NRS048-9 by the City of Cape Town. As quoted by a city official on Mybroadband, this regulation ‘identifies the following criteria for the implementation of load-shedding: the safety of people, the environment, the potential damage to plants associated with a critical national product (for example wastewater treatment works) and technical constraints on executing load shedding and curtailment or restoration.’
It was also quoted that ‘this is the national standard for load-shedding and deals with the appropriate treatment of critical loads and the essential load requirements of various customers’.
Aside from hospitals, the following are deemed regulation NRS048-9 areas:
- Bellville CBD – includes two state hospitals, Telkom international data centre, eye hospital and two private hospitals
- Tyger Valley, Cape Gate and Willow Bridge – load curtailment customers as per NRS048-9
- Claremont Central Business District
- Newlands Control Centre – load-shedding switching centre
- Newlands Cricket Stadium – during fixtures October to Jan/Feb
- Newlands Rugby Stadium – during fixtures March/April to Sept/Oct
- SAB Miller – load curtailment customer as per NRS048-9
- Cape Town CBD – major central business district, Sommerset and Christiaan Barnard Hospitals
- Mitchells Plain – Town Centre, Promenade, SAPS, Courts
- Tamboerskloof, parts of CBD – High Court (8 am – 4 pm), Cable Car High Season and windy days
So to draw a conclusion based on the list above, Newlands is the area listed most often on the NRS048-9 customer list and is therefore the least load-shedded area in Cape Town. Yes, it’s pretty much cast in a shadow from the early afternoon but at least you’ve got reliable lights to work against the shadow.
Interesting to see SAB Miller there, obviously to prevent a a national beer shortage catastrophe from happening. Money talks I guess.
CapeTownEtc Interesting…. CityofCT PatriciaDeLille
Lol for that last part on SAB! U0001f602
You can add Ysterplaat airforce base to that list 🙂 the beer thing is pretty funny :p
For the past 3 months, virtually without fail, we have 2 hours 30 min of load shedding every alternative evening from 6 to 8.30 pm (sometimes 3 hours at a time) – Bothasig, Burgundy Estate and Richwood 2.
Klaus thats why !
There are hospitals that experience load shedding. Generators take a while to kick in.
i am convinced De Waterkant/Foreshore does not experience loadshedding… great place to go when we out…
The private are not exempt. They all have very efficient generators. The Kingsbury is shed regularly. So there are other reasons that we don’t get told
Observatory gets load shedding extremely rarely (presumably because of Groote Schuur hospital, but it could be for some other reason).
Parliament?
And waterfront?
Any military base does not get loadshed
Waterfront hardly goes off aswell. I live in the city (Area 7) and my bf n I sometimes go to the movies during loadshedding.
Nikita Fourie, check out the tamboerskloof part
Green Point. Only happened twice that I can remember and yet restaurants down the road and closer to Somerset Hospital do experience shedding. Maybe somebody important (besides me) lives here.
Friends of ours in “” upper Claremont “”” seem to also have missed the switch off. No prizes for guessing who might live in this area ?!?
You can only have load shedding where energy is consumed U0001f600
Shhh Carol, don’t tell them! 🙂 (also live in Green Point)
NEWLANDS. THEY NEVER HAVE LOADSHEDDING. Not that I have any issues at all with this.
Dis nie waar ni.Ons kry elke dag loadshedding in tygervallei.dit val onder zone 6
2 Military hospital and the base have regular load shedding.
Battle Bunker Tygervalley.
Bellville South
Parklands too
Cape CBC does have loadshedding every now and again
Boston kry nooit load shedding
Guy Friedmann hahaha this just came up on my newsfeed….
Brooklyn never gets…
Airport.
Oretia du Preez
Thomas Wilson
Lucky you
Jason Brown
Dean Berndt FYI
Century City!!!!!!
Only Blue Label is consumed
Parliament
Matthew ‘Mosh’ Hurworth
Interesting Cindy-Jade Jenner
Boston Bellville
Mmmh so that’s why Vredehoek has power sometimes Jenna Manthé ?
Ha ha ha great find
Who said so? My office is on the same grind as Parliament and often experience load shedding.
Politicians are nothing if not self-serving
Getting the priorities right with SAB Miller and Club Newlands haha
somerset hospital does get loadshedding,but the generators kicks in immediately
Newlands
Khayelitsha
Those with generators.
I wonder if they impose loadshedding on the camps with the ILLEGAL electricity or are they turning a blind eye?
Funny hw the people who consume the most electricity with huge houses are the least affected! But lower to middle class will suffer!
Tafelsig area
Gordon Dodge- turns out it’s beer, not the president!
Claremont cavendish
cannot answer for State Hospitals, private hospitals go off, fortunately they have big generators to fill the gap
Yes Newlands…. oak avenue Kenilworth …not sure why… that whole block never gets loadshedding
Thasmika Vather
And now to crown it all. High tariff hikes so that the rich can get richer. Bet their salaries will be hiked to pretty figures.
Travelstart Thanks for the retweet 🙂
Nicholas Pothecary
Lol
1pm news. No more load shedding for this week.
Eastridge MPlain seldom, only once that i can remember were wihout electricity
Any area where an ANC cabinet minister has a home!!!
Psrliament and all ANC offices?
Does Robben Island have load shedding?
Ysterplaat near the Airfield they never go off
Iv never heard that hospitals are on their own grid, hospitals experience loadshedding too!
Siphesihle Khanya Mahanjana
Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital and parts of Parklands
Harold Wingrin
Pardon island never goes off
Beacon Valley M/plain
But the whole CBD is off in the middle of the day . The government workers were sitting around . Nothing to do .
The power stays on at State Hospitals
Zade Deen Bester
Interesting 🙂 most interesting is SAB but they struck some sort of deal. They explained it during the brewery tour but cant remember
I work there, they definitely get loadshedding. Even the Hospital there gets loadshedding and it does not have generators.
Newlands.
My sister in Claremont has as yet not had loadshedding, Newlands does not have load shedding due to waterpump station.
Hospitals power do go off.. believe me I was there on friday.. I know houses near tygervalley centre has no loadshedding
Siphokazi Gongxeka
Constance Nunes
Little Mowbray. We haven’t had loadshedding for ages. We’re between Red Cross and Groote Schuur hospitals
West coast village in sunningdale I have heard never has power outages.
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Eastrige near police station never have a problem since loadsheding start
Lost city, tafelsig.
Great selling point for Newlands’ Residents and an even greater reason to buy in Newlands!!
Heather Turner of Pam Golding Properties
I’m in observatory and I’m on the Groote Schuur Hospital grid I never had load shedding
I’m really lucky
Rondebosch near JZ official residence.
Harbour?
Boston
Yes, yes, YES! Our area is! Hip hip!
Anton Kohler, Lindy Kohler,
Newlands
we dont get it and i live in bellville
What is load heading
The affluent areas
Tableview same
To me that is being targeted unfairly. Surely they can switch times and areas every other month.
My mum lives in Newlands and she often gets load shedding ???!
Nope
What is affluent about the bottom of Bellville?
Well it seems Constantia, Green Point, Newlands, etc doesn’t experience much load shedding as well as quite a few other areas. I did not say Bellville doesn’t get load shedding but if you don’t how nice. We are off almost every 2nd night 6-8pm
Palamente
Well all those not affected!!! SAY THANK YOU to TableView, Parklands and Blouberg cause we take the brunt for everyone – we have loadshedding every day or every alternative day!!! SHARE I say!!!
Some streets in Boston Bellville…. Near Karl Bremmer Hospital.
That’s why I love living in Newlands!!
New lands
Yes…my dentist. He says it’s because certain well-connected people live nearby
Mfundo Zungu
My res at UCT. I don’t even wanna go home for june holidays
Let me think….government buildings,informal settlements,hospitals and the soccer stadiums?
Upper Claremont! U0001f61c
My mom rented a house in newlands No loadshedding house is close to the presidents residence lol
Well that’s life mate! Richard Bower
Yes because life all comes down to the colour of your skin!
Newlands !
Century City
Hanover Park and Manenberg
Savanna Deetlefs Catie Dix Anastasia Daisy Smith
Agree with you, Annette Delport..
Observatory is unaffected in some areas because both Groote Schuur and Valkenburg are on our grid. (I think?) We haven’t gotten load shedding in months.
Rondebosch.
Waterfront
Delme Thomas Winnaar
Can’t be due to Groote Schuur.
The top of Obs has load shedding.
Now sure why we don’t get it.
Tafelsig because of the high crime rate
And Nkantla
Yay Newlands!!!
Khayelitsha never ever, Beacon Valley, Eastridge & Tafelsig
Hout Bay been nearly off every day for the past weeks
Certain parts are badly affectedU0001f602 just not all if then
* of them
Electric Hospital beds should have batteries. In case of emergency it should be able to drop into a position for cpr etc.
Hospitals do go down. We have a generator to keep going.
Hazendal, Alicedale Estate next to the Jan Smuts sewerage plant. Now and then we are shed, but on the whole not.
Yes. Lower Scott Road in Observatory never gets load shedding because the snowflake mill is there. Runs 24/7
The people that live between lower main Salt River and the Mill don’t even know what’s load shedding. Like from another planet.
Durbanville gets the same thing.
NRSO.. is too broad and vague to make any sense of.
I don’t know which hospitals are exempted… But Groote Schuur not exempted…relies on generator.
They lied! Zone 13 had shedding last night.
I work at groote schuur. We get loadshedding but we the hospital has generator which kicks in immediately
Very unfair….
I guess the staff will be as surprised to know this fact as the patients….not funny, but should the staff not know this?
So does keeping the area alight all the time actually help to curb crime? I think not….
Extremely unfair! So many areas not been affected yet they don’t miss pushing our button.
I stay in Khayelitsha and we definitely get load shedding
I live in Khayelitsha a d there’s load shedding almost every morning…
According to your list:
Mitchells Plain – Town Centre, Promenade, SAPS, Courts
Please see Khayelitsha and tell me where is the difference.
Khayelitsha – khayelithsa Mall, Khayelitsha Centre, Khayelitsha Hospital, SAPS, Court
So why are you still load shedding Khayelitsha??
ALL AREAS WHERE BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE RESIDE IN CAPE TOWN:- GIVE THEM LOAD SHEDDING:
then some1 lied to me bcos people I know that live there says they never get load shedding
Gotta love Cape Town… anywhere close to hospitals.. major mediclinics etc.. the lights remain
I never mentioned any areas names lol