JOHN STEENHUISEN
I HAVE written to President Ramaphosa to request an urgent meeting about Eskom and the growing power crisis, which now has South Africa on stage 6 until further notice.
I want to hear from him first hand why his government refuses to implement the very obvious solutions to this crisis. These solutions have not changed. Both the DA and many energy experts have been proposing them for years:
- Unbundle Eskom into separate transmission, distribution and generation entities and open the market for electricity generation to private power producers
- Appoint skilled engineers to run the transmission, distribution and generation elements of Eskom, and stop all political interference
- Declare a ring-fenced State of Disaster in order to exempt Eskom from all obstacles to efficient spending and rapid decision-making, such as localisation and BEE legislation
- Ramp up security at all key Eskom sites and deal decisively and harshly with saboteurs
- Do everything possible
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