Stage 8 of load-shedding loading

Group Executive for Transmission Segomoco Scheppers says power utility Eskom may have to implement “Stage 8” level of power cuts this winter if effective interventions are not put into place.
This means, “Stage 8” power cuts would require up to 8,000 megawatts to be shed from the national grid.
Meanwhile, former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter was scrutinized by the public minister Pravin Gordhan after a 237-page “tell-all” book titled “Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom” detailing allegations of corruption that happened at Eskom during his tenure, implicating senior and high rank politicians of siphoning billions of rands out of Eskom a month.
Minister Gordhan suggested that the former Eskom CEO may have broken confidentiality clauses of his employment contract by speaking publicly about Eskom affairs.
“In no big institution like Eskom in the private sector, would you have a CEO who has left for whatever reason, writing chapter and verse about events that have been taking place in the company itself.”
Gordhan said that De Ruyter should have used his book to apologise to the nation for his shortcomings, rather than as an excuse for his failures.
Eskom chairperson Mpho Makwana said the Eskom board had taken note of what de Ruyter said in his book, adding that the power utility will be taking action against him.
“It must be noted and placed on record that trust was broken by him making those public statements and the publication of the book, and this trust was broken in the most repulsive manner possible,” Makwana said.