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THE government says exempting schools, hospitals and other critical public facilities from load shedding is not possible in its appeal against the North Gauteng High Court landmark ruling that it should take reasonable steps to ensure critical public facilities were exempted from load shedding.
The court also found that load shedding these facilities was unconstitutional.
On Wednesday, the same court heard arguments from the government and Eskom where State representative Marumo Moerane said the court order was inappropriate and breached the principles of the separation of powers.
Moerane said the case had over 20 respondents, ranging from the electricity and finance ministers, President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Eskom CEO.
He said the order did not make clear what each person or entity should be responsible for.
“The order, as granted by the court, not only suffers from the question of vagueness but also it’s not readily implementable.”
During Moerane’s arguments, Judge Norman Davis reminded the State advocate that the Electricity Minister submitted an affidavit to court saying he was chief coordinator of all government entities that related to curbing load shedding.
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