The ANC runs the risk of losing next year’s elections if it does not solve the country’s energy crisis in the next 15 months, the newly elected deputy chairperson of its economic transformation committee, Zuko Godlimpi, has conceded.
will oversee the electricity crisis response, with the political responsibility, authority and control over all critical aspects of the energy action plan.remained one of the key macro risks to the country and that the government should consider possible implications that could lead to mass upheaval.
Godlimpi said that part of the debate in the NEC was the alignment on the messaging about Eskom. The party’s highest decision-making structure agreed that Ramaphosa must be the principle communicator on the energy problem, he said, adding that the ANC recognised it needed to improve communication about the crisis.
“There is an engineering sequencing that could help us to beat load-shedding and that is related to getting the number of power stations to be functioning optimally. That must be the single minded strategy that the Eskom leadership focuses on. And that is what the government must insist on with Eskom — that this is your priority from a policy point of view. Our policy priority now is fixing the existing generation capacity will defer all other policy matters to the long term.
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