BDLive reports that Eskom is continuing to negotiate with its trade unions and does not anticipate a strike or that there will be any loadshedding, the power utility’s executives said on Tuesday.
They were responding to questions at a state of the system briefing about threats from the biggest unions, which have expressed dissatisfaction with Eskom’s offer of a 7% wage increase. Eskom group CE Brian Molefe said there was no shortage of power generation at present, but there remained a problem in the "last mile" in reticulation, which was due to overloading the system, reflecting overloading, illegal connections, cable theft and vandalism. Molefe noted that loadshedding has not been implemented since August 2015.
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