{"id":95117,"date":"2026-01-31T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:59:33","slug":"malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding","title":{"rendered":"Malema says load reduction \u2018as bad\u2019 a load shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said Eskom does not deserve any praise for ending load shedding, as many communities continue to experience rolling power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Load reduction refers to power supply interruptions implemented by municipalities, often targeting densely populated communities.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to load shedding, these electricity cuts see residents in heavily populated areas cut off from electricity for at least two hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the party\u2019s plenum in Boksburg, Malema emphasised that power cuts are far from being a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a lie that we must dispel now that load shedding has ended in South Africa &#8211; it has simply been given another name called load reduction and it is as bad as load shedding. We cannot as leaders of society and as the media participate in a state-sponsored lie that South Africa has recovered from the electricity crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said Eskom does not deserve any praise for ending load shedding, as many communities continue to experience rolling power cuts. Load reduction refers to power supply interruptions implemented by municipalities, often targeting densely populated communities. Similar to load shedding, these electricity cuts see residents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-95117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malema says load reduction \u2018as bad\u2019 a load shedding - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said Eskom does not deserve any praise for ending load shedding, as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malema says load reduction \u2018as bad\u2019 a load shedding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said Eskom does not deserve any praise for ending load shedding, as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-31T19:37:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-31T19:59:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/01\/sm_1769876921.647621.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malema says load reduction \u2018as bad\u2019 a load shedding\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-31T19:37:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-31T19:59:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/01\/sm_1769876921.647621.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-says-load-reduction-as-bad-a-load-shedding\",\"name\":\"Malema says load reduction \u2018as bad\u2019 a load shedding - 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