The DA has repeated its call for Eskom to be declared a state of disaster after a visit to the Kusile power station.
He said the power station is symbolic of failure with multiple generation units out of commission.
“I call on President Cyril Ramaphosa to come home right away and address the nation on his plans to avert the disaster of a grid collapse. And by plans, I mean actual interventions and not just platitudes and vague statements about Eskom having turned a corner,”“This should have been done months ago, when he presented his energy response plan, and his refusal then to concede the urgency and scale of the disaster has left our grid on the brink of collapse.
“This state of disaster needs to be declared now so disaster relief funding can be reprioritised to keep the open-cycle turbines running” A state of disaster will allow government to bypass its own “self-imposed obstacles, bottlenecks and cost inflations in the form of unworkable labour legislation, localisation requirements, cadre deployment and preferential procurement”.
“These ANC policies lie at the heart of Eskom’s collapse and need to be set aside if the utility is to recover,” he said.
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