South Africa's Eskom to implement power cuts on Wednesday

Pulse Staff 12:19 - 20 May 2015

Electricity pylons carry power from Cape Town's Koeberg nuclear power plant July 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Eskom will reduce up to 1,000 megawatts of electricity from the national grid at 1400 GMT and then cut as much as 2,000 megawatts from 1500 GMT until 2000 GMT, the power utility said on Wednesday.

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