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South Africa's Eskom to implement power cuts on Thursday

Pulse Staff
Pulse Staff 06:24 - 21 May 2015
A shopkeeper waits for customers in his candlelit fast food store during a load shedding electricity blackout in Cape Town April 15, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
A shopkeeper waits for customers in his candlelit fast food store during a load shedding electricity blackout in Cape Town April 15, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's power utility Eskom said it would cut up to 2,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid on Thursday from 0600 GMT to 2000 GMT.
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The state-owned utility cuts power to prevent demand from surging past available supply as it embarks on a maintenance of its creaky stations.

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