President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster, to respond to the electricity crisis.
Ramaphosa said he will appoint a minister of electricity in the Presidency and the minister will focus full-time on working with Eskom to end load shedding.
“Extraordinary circumstances, do call for extraordinary measures,” he said.
Earlier on Thursday, trade union Solidarity warned that it would pursue legal action if President Cyril Ramaphosa instituted a state of disaster due to the ongoing energy crisis in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Thursday evening.
The union said in statement there is not a single element of the energy crisis that has its origins in the limitation of state powers, and it is precisely the government’s jealous clinging to its monopoly in this sector that is the root cause of the crisis.
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