Gordhan: Eskom doing everything it can to ensure power cuts don't affect polls | Vee_Makhoali
JOHANNESBURG - Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has reiterated that Eskom was doing everything in its power to ensure that you did not cast your vote potentially by candlelight on 1 November.
For many years, South Africa’s grid has edged closer to collapse as a result of aging infrastructure, mismanagement and corruption.Minister Gordhan said that he was confident that measures had been put in place to ensure voting and vote-counting would not be affected by power cuts unless, he said, there was an "unexpected event".
"In addition, the IEC informs us that each of these centres has generator capacity in the event that something untoward actually occurs. The scanners that we are used as South African when we go to vote are all pre-charged and have a 12-hour battery life." Mass power outages appear to be getting worse and some said that it was enough to convince them that their votes meant nothing.
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