PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that the current load-shedding crisis is a “calamity of enormous proportions” but has backed Ministers Gwede Mantashe and Pravin Gordhan after the leader of the opposition asked why the two Ministers had not been dismissed in light of their role in the “most costly failure in our country’s history”.
Highlighting that the country was in the midst of its worst-ever year for load-shedding, despite an assurance given by Ramaphosa in 2015 that the problem would be all but “forgotten” within 18 to 24 months, Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen asked at “what level of sustained load-shedding” would the President consider firing the Mineral Resources and Energy and Public Enterprises Ministers respectively.
In response, Ramaphosa insisted that the rotational power cuts were “not the wilful or planned intention of anyone who works in the State system” including the two Ministers.
“This has been a calamity of enormous proportions, which we all
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