'Load shedding isn't the end of the world,' says ANC's Sylvia Lucas
Load shedding"isn't the end of the world", said the ANC's Sylvia Lucas during the debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address .Speaking in Afrikaans, Lucas said you couldn't deny another’s reality when they told you that they lived underneath a tree during apartheid, but now had an erf with water and access to electricity.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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