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This sort of reminds me of Port O Prince, Haiti, Flint, Michigan and
Jackson, Mississippi for some reason. The race-based hiring and
promotion conjures up some of the faces and names in the Brandon Administration.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/09/watch-south-african-president-declares-national-state-of-disaster-on-electricity-crisis/

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa used his annual “State of the Nation” address to Parliament on Thursday evening to declare a “national state of disaster” regarding the country’s ongoing electricity shortages.

WATCH: South Africa’s President Ramaphosa declares a national state of disaster over the energy crisis in his state of the nation address

Live updates: https://t.co/537cgjm2AL pic.twitter.com/lSk0eIxFzy

— Bloomberg Africa (@BloombergAfrica) February 9, 2023

The country’s state-owned power company, Eskom, provided the cheapest
power in the world as recently as two decades ago, exporting electricity
to neighboring African countries as South Africa enjoyed a surplus of power.

However, the company failed to plan adequately for future economic
growth. It also implemented aggressive affirmative action policies that
saw experienced engineers replaced with less qualified ones on the basis
of race.

The company was also used to provide jobs to ruling party cronies, and
corrupt businessmen siphoned money from the company by obtaining
exorbitant procurement contracts, many of which were never fulfilled.

Moreover, critical power infrastructure has been targeted by thieves for
theft and even deliberate sabotage.

As a result, the company has been forced to implement a policy of “load-shedding,” which rotates power outages throughout the country for several hours a day. Recent days have seen particularly intense shortages.

load shedding (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News))
Customers at a bookstore in Johannesburg, South Africa, glance at their smartphones as they wait for generators to kick in during a load
shedding episode, February 9, 2023. (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)



As Ramaphosa explained during his address, the “state of disaster” will allow the government to speed up the procurement of alternative power
supplies, and will exempt key national infrastructure from load shedding:

The National Disaster Management Centre has consequently classified the
energy crisis and its impact as a disaster.

We are therefore declaring a national state of disaster to respond to
the electricity crisis and its effects.

The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has just gazetted the declaration of the State of Disaster, which will begin with immediate effect.

The state of disaster will enable us to provide practical measures that
we need to take to support businesses in the food production, storage
and retail supply chain, including for the rollout of generators, solar
panels and uninterrupted power supply.

Where technically possible, it will enable us to exempt critical
infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants from load
shedding.

And it will enable us to accelerate energy projects and limit regulatory requirements while maintaining rigorous environmental protections,
procurement principles and technical standards.

The Auditor-General will be brought in to ensure continuous monitoring
of expenditure, in order to guard against any abuses of the funds needed
to attend to this disaster.

To deal more effectively and urgently with the challenges that confront
us, I will appoint a Minister of Electricity in the Presidency to assume
full responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the electricity crisis response, including the work of the National Energy Crisis Committee.

The Minister will focus full-time and work with the Eskom board and
management on ending load shedding and ensuring that the Energy Action
Plan is implemented without delay.

The “disaster” is already real. Those who can afford alternative energy sources — such as generators, batteries, and solar panels — are able to manage the crisis. For poor South Africans, however, load shedding means
living without electricity for hours or even days on end.

That means students struggle to study and food spoils in refrigerators;
it also means darkened streets are even more unsafe.

Often, when power is restored, the subsequent surge of electricity
causes damage to consumer electronics, creating even more misery.
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