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Eskom load shedding has set back various business in the Mafube Local Municipality including butcheries, farmers, healthcare facilities and fast-food outlets. Eyewitness News visisted Frankfort, in the Free State, to get a firsthand experience of the impact of rampant power cuts.
As South Africans endure crippling blackouts, Eskom has pulled the plug on a small Free State town using solar energy to dodge power cuts.
Frankfort, a small town in the Free State, has been forced to abandon its solar energy system after being blocked by Eskom.
On Friday – the same day Eskom is forced to implement Stage 6 due to power failures at several power stations – a private power distributor in the small Free State Town of Frankfort has had to switch off portions of a solar farm after losing a case to Eskom in the high court, where it was fight...
Nearby solar farm run by a third party will be forced to dump its unused solar-generated electricity due to Eskom