KFC is temporarily closing some of its fried-chicken outlets in South Africa due to power cuts (locally referred to as load shedding) imposed by power utility Eskom.

The Yum! Brands Inc. chain made the decision after the number of loadshedding days passed 200 this year, an ‘unwanted’ record – as reported by The South African website.

According to Bloomberg, Eskom supplies more than 90% of South Africa’s electricity and has implemented nationwide power cuts to prevent the grid from total collapse.

While many of the KFC outlets have generators, its suppliers are not able to provide products due to loadshedding.

“The current constraints are due to load shedding impacting some of our suppliers. We are working hard to sort out all the constraints with our suppliers, and we’ll be open as soon as possible,” the company said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Yum!, based in Kentucky in the United States, owns and franchises more than 25 000 KFC outlets worldwide, around 750 of which are in South Africa.

Nice one

Don't they have generators to keep running the business

Omihanifa:
Don't they have generators to keep running the business

It's affecting KFC suppliers as well, so it's a chain reaction of non delivery. Besides SA is still getting used to loadshedding so most people and businesses don't have generators or solar alternatives.

Some of dis country no knw wetin b generator, unlike one giant of Africa with ancestors as leaders

South Africa implements loadshedding in order to prevent the grid from collapsing. It's a way of managing demand and supply. The country has over 50,000MW of electricity supply but due to aging infrastructure and engineering flaws at new power plants the grid has come under unprecedented pressure in 2022.

They should come for how to use generator for business training

I personally recommend Nland Mods for them

Businesses in SA should better start looking into alternative power sources.

SA's new mega power plants - Medupi and Kusile - hit by massive engineering faults, resulting in loadshedding.

Up NEPA.

They are gradually going the Nigerian way.

Roboto11:
Up NEPA.

They are gradually going the Nigerian way.

Lol, even just one newly built but faulty SA power station (4,800MW) competes with your entire power generation for over 250 million people in Nigeria.

SA generates over 50,000MW of electricity for just 60 million people.

So I'm suspecting you only get one hour of tax payers electricity in Nigeria.

Here's Medupi and Kusile capacity below.

And so the regression begins..flimsy excuses to scuttle progress....more loading.....westabad.

WannaHowzit:


Lol, even just one newly built but faulty SA power station (4,800MW) competes with your entire power generation for over 250 million people in Nigeria.

SA generates over 50,000MW of electricity for just 60 million people.

But shedding power.

You also admit the new build is faulty.

No need to be defensive, work on it.

zeuss:
And so the regression begins..flimsy excuses to scuttle progress....more loading.....westabad.

Power plants commissioned during the Mbeki years, built during the Zuma presidency but contracts awarded to dodgy companies because Zuma was corrupt as we all know. So SA now playing for that mess.

Aleast the rate of murder (chicken) will reduce.

Roboto11:


But shedding power.

You also admit the new build is faulty.

No need to be defensive, work on it.

I'm educating you.

WannaHowzit:


I'm educating you.

You aren't doing sh.it.

Work on your infrastructure else it would go into decay.

Roboto11:


You aren't doing sh.it.

Work on your infrastructure else it would go into decay.

I'll let Europeans advise us on infrastructure development, not Japagerians constantly ranked amongst the worst countries to live in.

WannaHowzit:


I'll let Europeans advise us on infrastructure development, not Japagerians constantly ranked amongst the worst countries to live in.

You seem to have an inferiority complex.

Roboto11:


You seem to have an inferiority complex.

I have a superiority complex being a South African. Thanks. Bye.

WannaHowzit:


I have a superiority complex being a South African. Thanks. Bye.

You may not respond but this is Nairaland, a Nigerian forum.

We wont miss you.

Roboto11:


You may not respond but this is Nairaland, a Nigerian forum.

We wont miss you.

Parrot69 aka maggot69gaysexposition will miss me. And his boyfriend morpheus101.

As for you you're a non entity.

WannaHowzit:


Parrot69 aka maggot69gaysexposition will miss me. And his boyfriend morpheus101.

As for you you're a non entity.

Seems you were sexually abused as a child.

It manifests in the way you write.

Therapy seems not to have helped.

Your uncle still visits you daily and you don't have the guts to confront him.

Shame.

Roboto11:


Seems you were sexually abused as a child.

It manifests in the way you write.

Therapy seems not to have helped.

Your uncle still visits you daily and you don't have the guts to confront him.

Shame.

Your uncle is selling drugs and scamming in dark corners across South Africa as a Japagerian. SA is already building a huge wall coz we see you're about to willingly elect a half-dead politician with one bust-up knee and foot in the grave as your president. Massive japaring loading...

We'll be laughing silently in Pretoria

WannaHowzit:


Your uncle is selling drugs and scamming in dark corners across South Africa as a Japagerian. SA is already building a huge wall coz we see you're about to willingly elect a half-dead politician with one bust-up knee and foot in the grave as your president. Massive japaring loading...

We'll be laughing silently in Pretoria

Attend to your childhood issue of abuse.

Roboto11:


Attend to your childhood issue of abuse.

God will send a wayward snake or rat into your yard in the morning so you can enjoy festive season pepper soup. The rest of us enjoying European lifestyles will send R1.

Please, I'm actually a nice person. Can people please stop provoking me.

Nice Nigerians please intervene.

WannaHowzit:


Parrot69 aka maggot69gaysexposition will miss me. And his boyfriend morpheus101.

As for you you're a non entity.

calm down man with the unnesesary pokes

WannaHowzit:


God will send a wayward snake or rat into your yard in the morning so you can enjoy festive season pepper soup. The rest of us enjoying European lifestyles will send R1.

Boy you do have a complex.

Child abuse is one thing but to see yourself as inferior...

You need prayers.

Why is this in the Phone section tho

As a Nigerian, I hate people defending a hopeless nation with no bright future ahead, the most shitholed nation with dumbass leaders who doesn't even care for its citizens, leaders who squandered and embezzled money meant to improve and upgrade the lifes of its citizens. Police kills innocent citizens at will, bandits and kidnappings everywhere, their is no jobs for the youths, majority of its citizens living in penury. Dont ever compare 9ja to Benin or Togo not to talk of SA, 9ja is a complete mess because nothing good could be attributed to the corruption and poverty capital of the world!

Spanishmilf:
Why is this in the Phone section tho

Tech news, electricity.

I get the anti SA undertones.

Op just wanted to bash.