{"id":9478,"date":"2026-01-07T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:57:08","slug":"south-africa-marks-231-consecutive-days-in-2025-without-loadshedding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9478\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa marks 231 consecutive days in 2025 without loadshedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Africa maintained 231 consecutive days of power last year, according to state-owned utility Eskom, after years of persistent blackouts that held back growth in Africa\u2019s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eskom said that through 2025, it recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-02\/south-africa-s-eskom-marks-231-days-without-power-cuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:only 26 hours of loadshedding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">only 26 hours of loadshedding<\/a>, the local term for scheduled electricity cuts \u2014 all of them in April and May \u2014 because of improved maintenance of its aging power stations. The improvement at Eskom, which provides 80% of the country\u2019s power generation, comes after years of mismanagement, corruption scandals, and bailouts for ongoing debt problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Africa is trying to reduce its reliance on coal and its longer-term plans include building a new nuclear power plant and bringing on board more private companies to generate electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/preeti-jha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preeti Jha;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preeti Jha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa maintained 231 consecutive days of power last year, according to state-owned utility Eskom, after years of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6565,6566,4715,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-9478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-consecutive-days","9":"tag-electricity-cuts","10":"tag-eskom","11":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478","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=9478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}