Solidarity has taken on government.
Labour union Solidarity appealed to a court to overturn the state of disaster declared by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to deal with the nation’s energy crisis.
“The government itself is the cause of the electricity disaster, and it cannot declare itself a disaster, thereby obtaining extraordinary powers to address the disaster,” the union’s Chief Executive Officer Dirk Hermann said. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy will issue a request for proposals for 513 megawatts of battery storage by the end of the month, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said in a speech to lawmakers.
South Africa’s ongoing energy crisis has caused rolling blackouts, weakened the South African rand and forced the declaration of a state of disaster. An alternative asset manager is touting a new fund that it says will help alleviate that crisis and make investors a healthy return.
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