PHUTI MOSOMANE
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has defended the proposed appointment of a new Minister of Electricity to deal with Eskom’s load-shedding crisis.
Opposition parties, and the ANC’s key alliance partners, the South African Communist Party and COSATU, have slammed the creation of a new ministry, saying that government is already too big and costly to the taxpayer.
But in his response to the debate on the State of the Nation Address, Ramaphosa said the new Minister of Electricity will be solely responsible for driving the various actions being coordinated by the National Energy Crisis Committee to end load shedding as a matter of urgency.
“To end load shedding, however, we must shift gear. A crisis of this nature demands a coordinated response, and it demands urgent action. That is the reason why I am appointing a special Minister in the Presidency and the reason why a national state of disaster has
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