THE Presidency insists that progress is being made to implement the plan outlined by President Cyril Ramaphosa on July 25 to tackle load-shedding, which breached 4 100 GWh by the end of September – a level that is materially worse than the 1 776 GWh shed in 2021, the country’s previous worst load-shedding year.
However, The Presidency’s Rudi Dicks cautions that rotational power cuts are likely to remain a reality for at least another 18 months.
In a presentation delivered during the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa’s recent conference, Dicks reiterated government’s acknowledgement that the power crisis represented the “single most important constraint on economic growth and job creation”.
He said that was why Ramaphosa had taken direct political responsibility for driving the interventions announced in July and was personally chairing the National Energy Crisis Committee (Necom).
The committee also includes Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy, Public Enterprises Minister
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