opinion
Increasingly, there has been talk of a nationwide blackout that will affect South Africans.
A perfunctory gaze at social media and certain media outlets will show individuals alarmingly prophesying month-long blackouts and Eskom generators blowing up.
The increasing load shedding and talks of stage 16 have not gone unnoticed by false doomsday prophets and individuals who have nary an understanding of how to balance frequency and voltage control of the largest electricity utility in Africa.
Eskom defines a national blackout as the complete, uncontrolled, de-energisation of the power system. It stipulates that generators may “island to house load” and that all
