Sacci chief says Loadshedding 'appears to be an intractable problem'
JOHANNESBURG - Load shedding in South Africa has a devastating and negative impact on business and the country's economy, South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Alan Mukoki said on Friday.
On Wednesday, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said it was going to be a huge struggle to overcome the crisis, which he and senior Eskom officials partly blamed on a failure to maintain plants over the last five years, leaving the state utility with only 28,000 MW of electricity available against 48,000 MW of installed capacity.
Both acknowledged that Eskom had not communicated its problems to the public openly enough, and Gordhan committed to providing another update in about 14 days on how the current challenges were being addressed. "We are none the wiser in knowing when and whether this big risk is going to be resolved permanently. Business calls on government to take bold and decisive steps to solve the problem. These steps should include a review of whether the current resource allocation in people, systems, capital and ideas is even adequate," Mukoki said.
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