South Africans protest ongoing load shedding, rising electricity bills
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - JANUARY 20,: South African activists marched in central Pretoria, Gauteng province on Friday (Jan. 20) to denounce ongoing load shedding and the recent increase in the price of electricity.
The protesters gathered at Church Square before marching to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) offices on Madiba Street and then to Union Buildings, Arcadia.
On January 16, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa canceled his visit to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland to deal with a crippling energy crisis and other pressing issues in his country.
South Africa is currently facing its worst electricity crisis in decades with rolling blackouts of up to six hours a day.
Eskom, which generates over 90% of the country's electricity, has been struggling to meet demand and has been implementing different stages of outages for weeks.
Most of the output from the utility's aging power plant array is coal-fired, with the facilities in need of maintenance.(Footage by Ä°hsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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