text: Load shedding was reintroduced in early November 2014. The Majuba power plant lost its capacity to generate power after a collapse of one of its coal storage silos on 1 November 2014. The Majuba power plant delivered approximately 10% of the country's entire capacity and the collapse halted the delivery of coal to the plant. A second silo developed a major crack on 20 November causing the shut down of the plant again, this after temporary measures were instituted to deliver coal to the plant.
  2016, Eskom said that unplanned outages had been reduced
  In May 2016, former president Jacob Zuma said assurances had been given to him by Eskom management.
  In June 2018, there was Stage 1 load shedding along with a strike over wages.
  In February 2019, a new round of load shedding began due to the failure of coal burning boilers at some power stations due to poor quality coal.  This resulted in long running periods of level 4 load shedding across the country in mid-March 2019, including night-time load shedding. and promised to report back. The situation at Eskom and resulting energy crisis became a political issue during the 2019 South African general elections.
  Sabotage
  In December 2019, load shedding reached a new high as Eskom introduced stage 6 load shedding for the first time. Cyril Ramaphosa faced criticism as his departure for Egypt was announced shortly after the move to stage 6. He returned early to address the problem, meeting on 11 December with the Eskom board. Ramaphosa then announced that there had been an element of sabotage involved, leading to the loss of 2000MW capacity. Ramaphosa faced criticism on social media, with many blaming incompetence rather than sabotage.