Outage

WATCH: Was Malema right? Eskom pushes to Stage 6 load shedding

A cold week has led to Eskom pushing load shedding to Stage 6, due to the loss of additional generating units. The power utility…

Did you get a random Facebook friend request?

Meta has apologized for an issue where users received unwarranted friend requests when secretly viewing other user profiles. The issue has been addressed according…

Crippling impact of load shedding on township economy, small business

In an eye wakening report 60% of small businesses in townships stop operations as a result of load shedding while 66% and counting continue…

Stage 6, 7, Stage 8 load shedding next? | What to expect from Eskom

South Africa plummeted into stage 6 load shedding on Thursday leaving most parts of the country with prolonged outages and cold breakfasts. Stage 6…

Eskom implements stage 6 load shedding from 12pm

Eskom will now implement stage 6 from 12 Pm on Wednesday, until further notice. Due to a high number of breakdowns since midnight, including…

Businesses take beating as Eskom changes load shedding stages

Eskom on Tuesday said the country should get used to prolonged outages at least for the next few months. The national power utility will…

WhatsApp back online after service outage

WhatsApp is back online for some of its users after a more than two-hour-long outage. WhatsApp users were left fuming on Tuesday morning after…

Here’s why Eskom pushed load shedding to Stage 4

Eskom has resorted to implementing Stage 4 load shedding on Tuesday morning. Stage 4 will continue to be implemented until midnight. Stage 2 will…

Eskom shifts to Stage 1: here’s why it’s not over

Power utility Eskom is expected to deescalate from stage 2 load shedding to stage 1 at 4 pm this afternoon. Eskom will limit the…

Load shedding back at 4pm | here’s how many hours power will be gone for

Power utility Eskom has confirmed it will implement load shedding from 4pm on Monday afternoon. In an attempt to replenish emergency generation reserves during…

Eskom suspends load shedding

Loadshedding will be suspended at 5 am on Saturday morning amid buckling generation capacity Eskom has said. Eskom said load shedding will be suspended…

The brutal impact of Eskom’s load shedding

Industries are buckling in what can be described as the longest sessions of blackouts in South Africa. As the country grapples with erratic scheduled…

Load shedding continues all night on Thursday

Eskom has confirmed load shedding will be implemented throughout Thursday night. Eskom announced it would implement stage 2 load shedding on Tuesday, this week,…

MTN ‘crowdsourcing’ generators to combat loadshedding

MTN South Africa has announced that it is embarking on an “aggressive” rollout of batteries and alternative power sources, as well as sourcing generators…

Telkom internet users report outage across country

Telkom internet users have reported issues connecting to the ISP’s network across the country following Stage 4 loadshedding. Problems connecting to the internet for…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down in global outage

*Update: Facebook has now issued a statement on the cause of the outage, which Downdetector has said is one of the largest it has…

Live feed keeps you updated on fibre ISP outages

RocketNet has launched a live RSS feed that keeps South Africans updated on fibre faults and outages experienced by major ISPs around the country….

Telkom Mobile is down across South Africa due to a ‘network issue’

Update, Friday 7 February, 9pm: Telkom has reportedly fixed the network issues that plagued Telkom Mobile for much of Friday. Telkom has resolved the…

#WhatsAppDown: WhatsApp suffers its first global service issues of 2020

For the first time this year, WhatsApp is reportedly down for a number of users worldwide according to reports on social media. Service status…

Twitter Support: Tweetdeck, Twitter may be down for some users

Twitter is ironing out a few problems with Tweetdeck and its service at large this morning. The dashboard used by community managers and journalists…

Again!? Instagram and WhatsApp are down in some parts of the world

In a headline that’ll probably make you say “what’s new?” Instagram and WhatsApp are today facing service issues in various parts of the world….

Twitter was down worldwide after ‘internal configuration change’ last night

Social media tables turned on Thursday evening when Twitter — not Facebook — went down for a few hours around the world. “We are…

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down again tonight

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced connectivity issues on Wednesday night, the former confirmed in a post on Twitter. Ironically alerting users of its…

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