The ANC wants to put the same minister responsible for many of South Africa’s highly-contentious Covid-19 lockdown measures in charge of a national state of disaster to resolve the country’s energy crisis.
The ANC wants Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead South Africa’s efforts to resolve the load-shedding crisis in a national state of disaster., this was one of the recommendations made at the ruling party’s National Executive Committee lekgotla last week.
Several political experts believe that the 74-year-old Dlamini-Zuma will be among the ministers getting axed. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South African minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs. Credit: GCIS British American Tobacco, one of the biggest companies in South Africa, announced in January that it had started retrenchment proceedings and could lay off up to 2oo employees.
In November 2022, Sakeliga obtained an order that the minister must provide it with the records of data she relied on when she declared the state of national disaster in March 2020 and repeatedly extended it.As a result of this failure, Sakeliga is filing an application to find the minister guilty of contempt of court.
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