{"id":2246,"date":"2026-01-04T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2246\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:41:12","slug":"eskom-keeps-lights-on-for-231-straight-days-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2246\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom Keeps Lights on for 231 Straight Days in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1001Z:SJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd<\/a>. said it had managed to keep the lights on in South Africa for 231 consecutive days, citing better maintenance of its plants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The state-owned utility, whose turnaround after years of frequent power outages have helped improve the outlook for the South Africa\u2019s economy, said it recorded only 26 hours of loadshedding \u2014 as scheduled power cuts are locally known \u2014 in April and May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said it had managed to keep the lights on in South Africa for 231&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,2186,2190,2184,2185,2183,2188,2189,2191,2187,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-2246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-apple-inc","10":"tag-c-suite","11":"tag-chief-executive-officer","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-eskom-holdings","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-greener-living","16":"tag-industries","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}