With much support from ANC leaders, the government plans to mull over a legal framework that could allow it to implement a national state of disaster to resolve ongoing load shedding. | ZintleMahlati
The ANC's national executive committee lekgotla overwhelmingly supported the declaration of a national disaster.
A state of disaster allows the government to access more comprehensive financial resources in a short timeframe to help cushion a national emergency. The president did not divulge much about what a national disaster for energy would entail. The president said the NEC lekgotla agreed that efforts to resolve load shedding had to be fast-tracked sooner than the two-year timeframe previously communicated by Eskom.The party aims for 2024, a crucial year when, according to ANC and election modellers' predictions, the party could face its most challenging national and provincial election.
The president said the"energy crisis had to be resolved because it affected every aspect of essential service delivery, from health and food security, to water provision and security".
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