Load shedding a calamity of enormous proportions: President Ramaphosa to Parliament

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday acknowledged the government’s energy failures and also admitted that load shedding was a “calamity of enormous proportions”.

Ramaphosa faced questions in the National Assembly about Kusile and Medupi power plants that were delayed and were billions over budget.

He was back in Parliament for oral questions around energy, state capture, and the Phala Phala farm scandal.

Ramaphosa was also quizzed by Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen about his undertaking eight years ago that Eskom would no longer rely on load shedding in 2022.

“It’s now more than seven years later and we’re having our worst load shedding year ever. Households and businesses have blackouts 10 times a day now. This is the costliest failure in our country’s history,” Steenhuisen said.

Ramaphosa admitted that the latest series of scheduled power cuts have been a huge problem.

“This has been a calamity of enormous proportions that we all admit. I mean just two weeks ago to have almost 50% of our electricity generation just collapsed. One after the other and the next,” he said.

He said Eskom stopped building new power stations and engineers and experts left the country.

-EWN

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