ANC lekgotla urges national state of disaster on Eskom crisis — Cyril Ramaphosa: The party wants the presidency to co-ordinate all responses to the energy fiasco
wants a state of national disaster to be declared around South Africa’s energy crisis, with the presidency co-ordinating an emergency programme to “ensure that the energy crisis is properly addressed”.lekgotla held ahead of a cabinet gathering on Wednesday — and an impending cabinet reshuffle — agreed that the country needed to “move in that direction” to shorten the time needed to address the electricity generation dilemma it faces.
The decision would allow Eskom to shorten normal procurement procedures which, if managed properly, could cut down the amount of time the state electricity entity required for maintenance and refurbishment.said there had been a discussion around the declaration of a state of national disaster, as was done during the Covid-19 pandemic, and there was “general agreement” that this was a necessary step to take.
Work was already underway on analysing the legal framework for such a move and what steps could be taken under a state of disaster to address “the challenge that our nation faces”.
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