The current energy crisis in South Africa has been described as one of the worst and may be here to stay for quite a while. The country was plunged into stage 6 load shedding last Tuesday ahead of the planned outage of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station's Unit 1. The outage at Koeberg - initially planned for last Thursday (8 December) - was pushed back to THIS WEEKEND to give Eskom breathing room to try and stabilise its grid. The outage, which takes almost 1,000MW of energy off the grid,  will be for a duration of approximately six months to allow repair and refurbishment work at Africa's only nuclear power plant.  Some experts have however warned that taking the Koeberg unit offline will result in even higher stages of rolling blackouts as Medupi and Kusile, the country's newer power plants, often have technical faults. In our Sunday Morning Discussion we look at this precarious power supply situation and we spoke to Energy Advisor at The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) Liz McDaid AND Professor Sampson Mamphweli, Energy expert from Stellenbosch University