Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has refuted claims that the EFF's recent 'national shutdown' protest played a role in the suspension of loadshedding this week:
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has refuted claims that the EFF’s recent “national shutdown” protest played a role in the suspension of loadshedding this week.Eskom announced the suspension of loadshedding from Friday, 17 March until Wednesday, 22 March, citing an improvement in generation capacity. However, it was reported that stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented until 4pm, and stage 3 will follow until 5am on Thursday, 23 March.
“It has nothing to do with the EFF. It [was] a one-off protest. We will continue for the next seven days uninterrupted going to these power stations and trying to understand the scale of the problem,” Ramokgopa said. “Our interventions on resolving load-shedding don’t start with the minister of electricity. The energy action plan has been there, all that we are doing is accelerating it and of course, we can see that six power stations are beginning to pick [up and] the energy availability factor is going up.”
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