There has been a catastrophic failure on the part of either Eskom or the government to deal with the problem of electricity generation in SA, despite being warned about the impending problem in 1998.
on the energy policy, published by the department of minerals and energy in December 1998, warned that Eskom’s generation capacity surplus would be fully used in 2007.“From 1998 until the launching of these papers in January, very little has been done, other than policy statements and plans and then of course the building of two white elephants,” Dyke said, referring to Kusile and Medupi power stations.
We say the omissions of government and Eskom are so egregious and debilitating and so disrespectful of the Bill of Rights, that the time has come for steps to be taken,” Dyke said.Dyke added in his papers before court, that President Cyril Ramaphosa said of the 213 hospitals that were considered for exemption from load-shedding, 76 could be exempted immediately and 46 were identified as requiring new infrastructure to allow such exemption.
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