South Africa lifts the National State of Disaster, a legal move introduced in February to fast-track efforts to tackle electricity shortage
The South African government has lifted the National State of Disaster, a legal move introduced in February to fast-track efforts to tackle a crippling electricity shortage.
Locally known as load-shedding, the outages cost more than $50 million in lost production each day, according to Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe. It unlocked additional resources and allowed the government to leapfrog some bureaucratic hurdles to implement energy projects.On Wednesday, the government said the declaration had enabled it to "enhance interventions" towards boosting energy supplies.
"Of course, it doesn't mean that we don't have a problem, the outages continue," Tau told a press briefing.
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