IOL reports that the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) will stage a picket at Eskom’s Megawatt Park in Sunninghill on Wednesday.

Saftu’s Lebohang Phanyeko indicated that the federation was calling for an end to the continuous blackouts and demanding the resignation of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter. “The purpose of this protest is to raise the plight of workers but mostly to raise the frustrations from working-class formations, that they are tired of these mass rolling blackouts happening every day, every night and every morning. We are saying enough is enough. Load shedding must go. De Ruyter must fall. The entire board must fall. Pravin Gordhan must fall,” Phanyeko said. He added that South Africans were tired of blackouts and many people were losing their jobs because of the outages. “Small and big businesses are being crippled. The purpose of the march is a step towards bigger action which Saftu and its allies are speaking about,” Phanyeko indicated. Eskom implemented Stage 4 load shedding on Tuesday, following a breakdown of five generators at five power stations overnight.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Se-Anne Rall at IOL

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