Eskom Declares Effective End to National Load Shedding

On 26 February 2026, Eskom stated that load shedding is effectively over nationally, citing more than 400 consecutive days without power cuts, dating back to roughly mid-May 2025. This is relevant backdrop for anyone weighing Umdloti or the wider KZN North Coast against load-shedding-prone areas elsewhere in the country.

A related, lower-level mechanism called “load reduction,” used for specific overloaded local feeders rather than the whole grid, is separately being phased out nationally; roughly 60% of affected feeders were expected off load reduction by September 2026. This is a different, narrower issue than national load shedding and does not automatically mean every individual street is free of local outages.

The fuller, dated version of this story, including Eskom’s April 2026 forecast of a load-shedding-free winter, is tracked as a live status item rather than a one-off news piece. It is the kind of ongoing infrastructure reliability question a resident or investor keeps checking. See /status and the linked status entry on load shedding.