Government promises to end load shedding
The Presidency has reassured South Africans that government is confident that it will end load shedding and achieve energy security.
This is after South Africans braved stage 6 of load shedding braved for almost a week.
Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said they were taking all measures to ensure the grid was stabilised.
“These higher stages of load shedding are primarily, as we all know, caused by a large number of megawatts being taken off the grid as a result of unplanned breakages,”’ said Magwenya.
He said this was done to ensure the long-term sustainability of the grid.
“As the president said last week as he was asked a question in a parliamentary session, ‘we are taking short-term pain for long-term gain’ in that Eskom cannot take its eye off the ball in terms of planned maintenance. That has to continue. Unfortunately, we have to contend with these unplanned breakages.
“We remain confident that we are on track with respect to the implementation of the energy action plan. We remain confident that this planned maintenance programme will deliver the envisaged result and will contribute significantly in the stabilisation of our grid. We are attending to these unplanned breakages with the necessary speed that is required,” said Magwenya.
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