Tag Archives: Kimberley Infrastructure

There is a  high risk of loadshedding this weekend: Friday 28 November (lower risk),  Saturday 29 November (High Risk) and  Sunday 30 November 2014 (VERY HIGH RISK). Eskom expect to be able to meet electricity demands on Friday, but loadshedding is expected ...

Wednesday 26/11/2014: No load shedding expected today. Tuesday 25/11/2014: No load shedding expected today. Monday 24/11/2014: No load shedding expected today.  

Eskom loadshedding now on Stage 1 and Sol Plaatje Municipality has terminated load shedding for today: There should be no more blackouts in Kimberley tonight. There are outages due to the weather and Sol Plaatje Municipality are attending to those. ...

Loadshedding to continue until 22:00 today (Thanks Sharon Steyn for the info) Ashburnham is scheduled to go down from 20:00 till 22:00. This is should be the last black out for today. NOTE: Today restoration of electricity has run late for up ...

Load-shedding 14:15 23/11/20104:  Eskom is in Stage 2 load-shedding. Rolling Blackouts (Beurtkrag) has been implemented  in Kimberley from 14:00 today. NOTE: From reports by residents on social media it seems that the Blackouts in Kimberley are currently not strictly following the provided Schedule. Sources: ...

Load-shedding 09:30 23/11/20104:  Eskom is in Stage 1 load-shedding.  No Rolling Blackouts (Beurtkrag) currently expected in Kimberley. Sources: Johan Smit, Sharon Steyn, Eskom, NOCCI   Latest Updates: https://www.kimberley.org.za/tag/electricity/ Full schedule available at: https://www.kimberley.org.za/load-shedding-schedule-kimberley-sol-plaatje-municipality/ Facebook Updates at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KimberleyInfrastructure/

Load-shedding 06:00 23/11/20104: At this moment there is no active load-shedding, but with SA’s electricity supply still under severe strain load shedding is expected to continue today. The black bars in the attached image indicate that Eskom’s forecast show Eskom ...

Eskom has indicated that load-shedding and rolling blackouts will continue through the Weekend and possible until next week Wednesday. Eskom’s daily forecasts indicate a severely constrained electricity supply capacity until Wednesday. Although the electricity supply is not expected to be heavily strained ...

Update 05:00 14/11/2014: Only two of the 3 main water distribution pipelines at Newton was replaced yesterday.  These are the two lines which was in the worse condition and caused the majority of problems. Update 19:45 13/11/2014: Water is systematically ...

Henra, working in the area, used their equipment to help divert water away from houses in Greenpoint / Diamond Park during a heavy downpour this afternoon. Photos and Video by JP Le Roux and Mariska Wiese Photos below was taken after ...