No quick fix for load shedding but real progress is being made – Ramaphosa

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA|

FOR every person living in this country, the past two weeks of load shedding have been extremely frustrating and challenging. The widespread public anger is wholly justified.

With Eskom forced to once more implement load-shedding to protect the national grid, individuals, households and businesses have had to contend with power interruptions for up to four hours at a time.

Loadshedding is beyond an inconvenience. It has dire consequences for nearly every part of our society from education to public safety to the provision of health services. Large and small businesses alike are losing money and the energy crisis is endangering investment and our economic recovery.

There is a sense of despair that the situation does not seem to be improving and that there appears to be no end in sight to this crisis.

Yet, even in the darkness of load shedding there is and must be an