PHUTI MOSOMANE
THE Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s largest opposition, marched to the ANC headquarters Luthuli House in Johannesburg to demand that the governing party take responsibility for the crisis of loadshedding at Eskom.
The party declared Wednesday a National Day of Action against “ANC loadshedding” and “unaffordable electricity price increases”.
Hundreds of DA supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg, and waved placards saying, ‘’Loadshedding is killing jobs’’, and ”Power to the People”.
”No more ANC corruption where deals were sealed for Hitachi using Chancellor House. We will not accept the 18% electricity tariff increase. This is the beginning of peaceful rolling mass action [against load shedding],” DA Leader John Steenhuisen said.
“Most of you will know about the looting that took place – and still continues to take place – around the construction of South Africa’s two largest coal power stations, Medupi and Kusile. When those power stations [Medupi and
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