{"id":7581,"date":"2025-12-28T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:32:35","slug":"storms-wreak-havoc-on-sas-electricity-supply-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7581","title":{"rendered":"Storms wreak havoc on SA\u2019s electricity supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Storms and high winds are wreaking havoc on South Africa\u2019s electricity supply, with disruptions reported nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile major disruptions in the Eastern Cape have largely been addressed, the KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Free State provinces remain severely affected,\u201d state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>South Africa gets its first climate index to track weather risks<br \/>Disasters damage $12.7bn of African infrastructure a year<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The adverse weather conditions are placing significant strain on response times, particularly in areas where access is restricted due to flooding, damaged infrastructure or unsafe terrain, and Eskom teams are working round the clock to restore the power supply safely and as quickly as possible, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Listen\/read:<br \/>Amnesty International warns SA government\u2019s climate failures are drowning the poor<br \/>SA extreme weather and insurance: What policyholders must know<\/p>\n<p>Scores of homes were damaged in the storms in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal region, according to the disaster management agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a02025\u00a0Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Storms #wreak #havoc #SAs #electricity #supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storms and high winds are wrea&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1150,6230,363,222,318,6229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}