Ministers urged to help Eskom, Cape Town residents urged to reduce water consumption, major surgery backlog in Gauteng, no-confidence vote for eThekwini mayor delayed.
: Officials in the Presidency are calling ministers and departments daily to remind them to sign key approvals and exemptions for Eskom, allowing the embattled power utility to add more generation capacity to the grid. Rudi Dicks, an official in Ramaphosa’s private office, said that National Energy Crisis Committee’s attempts to help Eskom will bypass the regulatory mess that has blocked essential interventions. This comes in the wake of stage 6 load shedding.
[: Over 35,000 people in Gauteng are on the waiting list for surgeries in the province’s public hospitals – with over 10,000 patients on the waiting list at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital alone. Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko said that load shedding, backlogs due to Covid-19, and delays in filling critical posts have exasperated the issue. Nkomo-Ralehoko added that patients could wait up to five years for surgery.
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