Johannesburg load shedding schedule: city power supply areas; abbotsford, alexandra, atholl, birdhaven, birnam, bramley gardens, chislehurston, dunkeld, dunkeld west. Last week saw the abrupt return of load shedding to the daily vocabulary of south africans. load shedding is done to protect the national power system from tripping.. For load-shedding schedules affecting the city of johannesburg, you can visit www.citypower.co.za, or call 086 056 2874, or follow them on twitter @citypowerjhb..
Load shedding status we are currently not load shedding due to high demand or urgent maintenance being performed at certain power stations. to determine the time/s that you will be affected, please view the schedule for your area.. Johannesburg - eskom began stage 1 load-shedding on friday morning and said the power cuts would continue until at least 9pm. the utility says the outages are the result of protests by its workers. You can search for your suburb load-shedding schedule on its website. your group, or block number, is listed when you search for your suburb. unlike other municipalities, where load shedding occurs in two-hour blocks, in johannesburg, you can expect an outage of approximately 4.5 hours..
