President urges governing party and deployees to improve communication on Eskom crisis
President Cyril Ramaphosa called on ANC members to absorb criticism from angry South Africans over load-shedding, saying it was justified. File photo: GCIS
Ramaphosa called on ANC members to absorb criticism from angry South Africans over load-shedding, saying it was justified. “Post this meeting, we need to move on communication, particularly to demonstrate to our people that the governing party is dealing with the matter as we are being blamed, and in a number of ways correctly so.
“I think we need to take care not to load blame on our people. Our people are reeling, they are suffering from load-shedding, and this is not the time to be casting blame on them. What we need to be doing is not to shift blame, but to accept responsibility and act to repair the system. Thereafter, we can have meaningful conversations with our people,” he said.
“Our people want to hear today, now, that load-shedding is going to come to an end. That is not something anyone can promise because the lead time to install all these mechanisms is quite long.” He said options were numerous but what was urgent was to immediately bring down load-shedding from level 6. He said even level 2 was not going to be satisfactory to the people.
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