Johnathan Paoli
THE Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has challenged the December North Gauteng High Court judgment, obliging his department to ensure the complete exemption of institutions such as schools and hospitals from loadshedding.
The deadline for Ramokgopa is fast approaching as the high court judgment gives the minister until the end of January, to take reasonable action to ensure schools, police stations, and hospitals won’t be affected by power cuts.
Ramokgopa is challenging the ruling declaring load shedding unconstitutional, insisting that it was not the constitutionality of load shedding that was in dispute.
Ramokgopa said that the government agreed that ongoing load shedding limited the constitutional rights of South Africans.
However, the minister insisted that the court ruling had limitations and in need of clarification, and that is what they were appealing.
“It isolates the facilities – police stations, clinics, and schools – but from where I am sitting,
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