The DA leader has branded this coming Friday a 'national day of action' over the situation regarding SA's struggling power utility.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane , alongside the party's national spokesperson Solly Malatsi and MP Natasha Mazzone, at a press briefing to discuss the party's reaction to Eskom's energy woes. Picture: Twitter
“On 1st April, SA will wake up to the shock that electricity and fuel prices will increase,” Maimane said. Maimane added that he had sent a letter to parliamentary speaker Baleka Mbete demanding that she reconvene parliament.“It is clear that there exists no plan to fix this mess at all levels of national government. From the president, to the minister of public enterprises, to those at Eskom – there exists no plan and no political will to take immediate action to get our country out of this ANC-created crisis.
This means that the national assembly could still be reconvened until the day before elections, which will take place on May 8.Maimane demands “workable solutions to the crisis”. His proposed solutions, in their entirety, are as follows: Deliberating and resolving to implement solutions to prevent the potentially imminent collapse of the national energy grid, and put recommendations forward to both houses of parliament to consider; and
He also went into the DA’s proposed solutions to the crisis, which are, published in their entirety, as follows:
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