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Announced at 8 a.m. on August 9. “Loadshedding is suspended until midnight.” 16 hours of electricity staying on. Cringe when they switch off the power again. No expert predicts precisely when lights go back on. Hope within two hours, while horror thrillers happen. 

To a country notorious for jingoistic murders, gender-based violence and load-shedding. The announced availability of power during South Africa’s Public Holiday Woman's Day. Anniversary of the “great women's march.” Remembering 9 August 1956, almost 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against apartheid government laws.

Eskom, established in 1923, is a company in charge of electricity. The workload was light during apartheid, they only had to cater to a white minority. Problems started when they had to provide electricity to +60 million people.

2009 the first time load-shedding was declared. Since then, a daily probability timetable scheduling random electricity cuts nationwide. How many times, how long, between stages one and eight? Stages allow power stations to share electricity available across the country. 

Countless cases of theft, sabotage, and corruption, beneficiaries and competitors plaguing load-shedding. Presidentially declared national crisis responsible for the economy collapsing. Stages worsened by disputes in fossil fuel and green energy policies. mixed with local and international politics. Some court cases won, but few arrests. 

Marches protest how load-shedding is a crime - no solidarity like women in 1956. I write this expecting my electricity cut at midnight when Eskom ends the suspension. No Woman’s Day event to celebrate feminism safe yet. I doubt we give Load-shedding a public holiday in the future.

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Eskom Announces Loadshedding Suspended For Woman's Day 2023

President Cyril Ramaphosa called on the multilateral finance institutions of the global community to reform their practices and allow emerging economies to access development finance on fair terms. Ramaphosa was addressing the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He took the opportunity to tout SA’s government of national unity, Eskom’s suspension of load-shedding for nearly 10 months and the country’s presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20). He said that when SA took over the presidency of the G20 this year, the government would ensure the meeting focused on the three themes of solidarity, inequality and sustainable development. These themes can best be taken forward through the collective actions of a number of institutions like the G20 as well as various multilateral organisations such as the UN, the World Trade Organisation, the World Health Organisation, financial institutions of the world, some of which should be reformed and be made more representative and more responsive to the needs of the citizens of the world. 

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