Sunday Read: How more Stage 4 load shedding would have whacked the ANC in SAElections2019
Across three different sets of opinion polls, the ANC is set for a decent victory even after what its own leaders have called a “lost decade” of kleptocracy and corruption. The party is polling for a victory of between 58% and 61% of the national vote, almost three times higher than the expected outcome for the next biggest party, the opposition Democratic Alliance.The DA is polling at a national election outcome of between 18% and 20%.
“Trust in Eskom dropped by a drastic 17% in the first three months of 2019, falling from 56% in January to 49% in February and then by a further 10 percentage points to 39% in March,” said Citizen Surveys. Further Stage 4 load shedding was largely prevented by buying diesel and keeping the lights on through using the open-cycle gas turbines.It is costing the country millions of rands to run this source of emergency power. The diesel tanks at the turbines are now full, Eskom has confirmed.
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