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Eskom head office at Megawatt Park in Johannesburg. (Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images)
South Africans have been free of planned power cuts for just under two weeks – the longest stretch so far in 2024.
The country experienced 18 days without load shedding over the festive period at the end of last year (15 December 2023 to 2 January 2024), according to Eskom.
This, in turn, was beaten by a 20-day streak in 2022.
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