This follows a decision by the South African power utility Eskom to issue a power alert to all its customers, including the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), that it intends to implement load-shedding due to a cyclone that has ravaged parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
“Eskom, the National Power Utility of South Africa has issued a power alert to all its customers including the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) to the effect that the South Africa power system is facing constraints arising from increase in electricity demand” a statement from BPC says.
The statement further points out that “due to system constraint there is a high probability of Eskom implementing Stage 1 rotational load-shedding”.
Therefore BCP says some of the towns situated along the border with South Africa and are directly supplied by Eskom would be adversely affected.
BPC imports power from Eskom to supplement its internal generation.
The rest of the country is supplied by BPC directly and will not experience any load- shedding.
Citizens of Botswana living along the border with South Africa took to social media on Sunday to express their frustrations at the ongoing load-shedding.