According to Andre de Ruyter, Eskom’s Chief Executive Officer, the power utility is required to undertake load shedding in order to avert a total system failure. He was speaking after the electricity company informed that, due to power station problems, Stage 2 load shedding would begin on Wednesday morning. “We’d have the equivalent of heart arrest in the system. ” We have a 50Hz system that is going to zero, and restarting it will take two to three weeks, which is clearly a catastrophic scenario that we want to avoid at all costs. As a result, load shedding is being implemented in an attempt…