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Making headlines: Eskom says load-shedding will be reduced to stage 2, Mbalula to appear before State capture inquiry And, Maimane says 59 years on, Sharpeville a dormitory of unemployed labour

Eskom says load-shedding will be reduced to stage 2

Eskom will implement Stage 2 load-shedding today, as strain on the national grid improves.

Eskom spokesperson Andrew Etzinger said “signs are encouraging” that there will be reduced rotational power cuts as available generating capacity improves.

Stage 2 will be implemented between 09:00 and 23:00 on Friday. 

Etzinger said one of the reasons for the improvement was that a major diesel shipment arrived yesterday in the Western Cape.

The power utility had been left with virtually no diesel stocks to run the emergency open cycle gas turbines.

Mbalula to appear before State capture inquiry

Former minister of sports and recreation Fikile Mbalula will appear before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture today.      

In February, Mbalula vowed to "amplify the truth" when he testifies before the inquiry.

Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel testified at the commission last month and told Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that Mbalula had an emotional reaction during one of the party's national executive committee meetings over an interaction he had with one of the Gupta brothers.

Mbalula, who is the ANC’s head of elections, previously said everything that Manuel said about him was true.

Maimane says 59 years on, Sharpeville a dormitory of unemployed labour

The community of Sharpeville is still home to many unemployed and poor despite Human Rights Day centering around events in the area, Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has said.

DA celebrated Human Rights Day in Sharpeville where he said the township was still a dormitory of unemployed labour where people are not free.

Maimane and his party celebrated the day where 59 years ago, 69 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured in Sharpeville as they protested the Apartheid government’s pass laws and the carrying of pass books.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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