Govt Websites Restored After Massive Outage - South African News Briefs - February 9, 2023 allafrica: SouthAfrica
Key national government websites across the country - including Parliament, those of several departments, and the South African Police Service - crashed, possibly due to"infrastructure damage", reports State Information Technology Agency spokesperson Tlali Tlali said that"acts of vandalism and theft" in the vicinity of Tembisa, on the East Rand, damaged infrastructure, which may have contributed to the outage.
Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy said at the Mining Indaba that coal will remain part of South Africa's energy mix into the 2040s, and that improving the energy availability factor of the country's current power stations was a pressing imperative, reports"Our government has never advocated a sudden or precipitous move away from either coal-fired generation or towards a low carbon economy.
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