JOHANNESBURG – South Africans have been urged to reduce electricity consumption so as to lessen the need for — and impact of — load-shedding.
Schedules can be found on Eskom’s site; simply type in your suburb to find out if you are affected.
INFOGRAPHIC: Load-shedding explained
Stage 1: Requires minimal measure of burden shedding (up to 1,000 MW) and can be actualized multiple times over a four-day term for two hours all at once, or multiple times over an eight-day duration for 4 hours all at once.
Stage 2: Will twofold the recurrence of Stage 1, which implies you will be booked for load-shedding multiple times over a four-day term for two hours all at once, or multiple times over an eight-day duration for four hours all at once.
Stage 3: Will increment the recurrence of Stage 2 by 50 percent, which implies you will be booked for load-shedding multiple times over a four-day term for two hours all at once, or multiple times over an eight-day duration for four hours all at once.
Stage 4: Will twofold the recurrence of Stage 2, which implies you will be booked for load-shedding multiple times over a four-day term for two hours all at once, or multiple times over an eight-day duration for four hours all at once.
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If you don’t pay your electricity bill directly to Eskom but to a municipal electricity supplier like City Power in Johannesburg, you need to visit your city’s utility website to get load-shedding information. 
Municipality information
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.
For load-shedding schedules affecting the City of Tshwane, you can visit www.tshwane.gov.za, or call (012) 358-2111 / (012) 427-2111, or follow them on Twitter @CityTshwane.
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For load-shedding schedules affecting the City of Cape Town, you can visit www.capetown.gov.za or this page, or call 0860 103 089, or follow them on Twitter @CityofCT.
For load shedding schedules affecting the City of eThekwini, you can visit www.durban.gov.za, or call 080 13 13 111, or follow them on Twitter @eThekwiniM.
If you live in the Mangaung Metro Municipality, you can visit www.mangaung.co.za, or call 0800 111 300. You can also visit http://www.centlec.co.za or call 086 007 6937.
