The ANC wants to employ disaster management legislation used to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic to help end crippling power cuts, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s says the response to dealing with load-shedding must be scientifically driven like it was with the Covid-19 pandemic. File photo.The ANC wants to employ disaster management legislation used to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic to help end crippling power cuts, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday.
“The ANC ... must declare a 'state of disaster' so that government can do extraordinary interventions beyond the regulatory environment... to pull together as we have done during Covid-19 and the 2010 World Cup.” The power cuts by Eskom have significantly constrained economic growth in Africa's most industrialised nation, prompting the central bank last week to slash its growth forecasts for this year and next.
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