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As the country basks in what many South Africans recognise as the luxury of uninterrupted electricity supply, one can’t help but wonder when the bubble will burst. It’s been just more than two weeks since load shedding was suspended around 14 December.

Following improvement in generation capacity.

Eskom has suspended electricity outages until at least 22 December after an improvement in generating capacity, it said in a statement.

The announcement of the four preferred bidders under the first bid window of the

Stage 6 loadshedding was re-implemented by Eskom and the DA has critised the 'failure' to address the power crisis in the country

The Democratic Alliance (DA) also believes that Gwede Mantashe must equally carry a lot of the blame for Eskom's load shedding crisis.

Over 6 000MW of capacity will likely be kept online for as long as possible …

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says massive progress has been made to ensure that load-shedding is consigned to the dustbin of history.

Stefan Schirmer and Rehan Visser says these measures are unaffordable and counterproductive

Reserve Bank research shows government spending on localisation has for some time now contributed nothing to economic growth.