Exempting schools, police stations and hospitals from load shedding practically impossible - Ramaphosa
The ministry of public enterprises says it plans to appeal the high court's load shedding exemption ruling to avoid "undue risk" to the country's grid.A Thursday parliamentary hearing in Cape Town brought questions surrounding the country’s energy crisis, with President Ramaphosa countering queries on the Minister of Public Enterprise’s appeal against the Pretoria High Court's decision to exempt schools, hospitals and police stations from load shedding.
“So now, we are faced with a court judgment and the impracticality of the process,” Ramaphosa said. “It is not being done in an arrogant way, in a way where we are trying to second guess the court. It is actually being done to ensure that we save the grid from otherwise collapsing.”spearheaded by the United Democratic Movement attempted to hold the public enterprises minister, Pravin Gordhan, accountable for electricity shortages in essential institutions last week.
The transition to renewable energy through South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan implemented earlier this year will take place over five years. According to Ramaphosa, the more immediate need in avoiding a grid collapse is emergency energy procured from other countries. South Africa’s mining industry was discussed at the hearing after the President’s mention of a recent ore discovery in the Northern Cape. Magnetite is a rock with minerals that, according to Ramaphosa, are mapped to fulfil the Democratic Alliance leader and parliamentarian John Steenhuisen responded by saying the mining sector was “ailing” and questioned whether the president supported the expropriation of mines.We have no policy to expropriate mines.
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