Tap the Share icon in Safari’s toolbar, then choose “Add to Home Screen”. It’ll open straight to Outage Status next time, like an app.
Pulled straight from Eskom’s own data feed, refreshed automatically. Eskom’s system has stayed stable for months, with no loadshedding scheduled nationally. Unplanned local faults can still happen — check your specific suburb below.
Rand Water supply to parts of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, Emfuleni and North West remains reduced after back-to-back substation and power-line faults (7 & 13 Sep) knocked out pumping capacity at two treatment stations — recovery depends on reservoir refill in each suburb.
Mobile and fibre outages are provider-specific and can change within minutes, so there’s no single national feed — check your own provider’s live status below.
Electricity load-shedding is nationally coordinated by Eskom and currently at Stage 0. Water and internet outages, by contrast, are local and provider-specific — there’s no single national feed for either, so the fastest way to check your own supply is your municipality’s or provider’s own live page, linked above.
| Service | Who supplies it | Where to check |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity | Eskom (national grid) or your municipality’s own distributor (e.g. City Power, Tshwane) | Eskom status page · EskomSePush |
| Water | Rand Water and similar bulk suppliers (wholesale), your municipality (retail/reticulation) | Your municipality’s water & sanitation page |
| Internet | Private ISPs and mobile networks (Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Cell C, Rain, fibre providers) | Your provider’s own status page |
Eskom’s loadshedding stages (0–8) describe how much demand needs to be cut nationally. Stage 0 means no scheduled cuts anywhere — the grid can meet demand without shedding load.
Water interruptions are managed per-municipality (Johannesburg Water, Cape Town, eThekwini and others each publish their own notices) and there’s no shared national API the way Eskom has for loadshedding, so the fastest accurate answer is your own municipality’s page.
Each mobile network and ISP runs its own infrastructure and publishes its own status page; outages are often hyper-local (one tower or exchange) and can resolve within minutes, so checking your specific provider is more reliable than any single aggregator.
Yes — this panel pulls the current loadshedding stage from Eskom’s own data feed on a schedule, so it updates itself without anyone manually editing the page.
Report it to whichever entity supplies your area (see the table above) rather than Eskom or a bulk supplier directly — most outages at street level are a municipal distribution fault, not a national supply issue.