Factories, traffic lights and mobile phone connections sputtered across South Africa on Monday as the indebted state-owned electricity monopoly imposed a third day of severe outages.

Eskom said it was “working round the clock” to restore multiple units that broke down and choked Africa’s most industrialised economy.

The unusually fierce, so-called stage four blackouts have been met with dread by South Africans and — two months before national elections — have embarrassed the governing African National Congress of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Most industrialised economy.. I like d sound of dat.. Some other economies are jus Giant of Africa for mouth