An apparent turf war over 💡Eskom powers hots up. The ANC wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to manage the 🥊battle between three ministers overseeing the country’s energy sector. Full story here➡️
endorsed Ramokgopa at the weekend, saying he was not appointed only to struggle for power.
“[Ramaphosa] is the president of the country and the president of the ANC. He must intervene and he can’t allow anarchy in this moment when we need to keep the lights on,” he said. “In our view there shouldn’t be an issue about what the minister of electricity can get in terms of powers … We expect the minister of electricity to have some powers to be able to do work and intervene directly.”
On Monday afternoon, Eskom said it will have to ramp up load shedding “over the next few days” following seven generation units failing. It said load shedding will be intensified to Stage 6 on Tuesday between 00:00 and 05:00, at which point Stage 4 will kick in. It will implement Stage 6 from 16:00 to midnight again, it said.
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