DA to challenge state of disaster in court to avoid 'looting' after lobbying for one to tackle energy crisis

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President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster during his state of the nation address on Thursday to “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”.DA leader John Steenhuisen said in response: “We have already briefed our lawyers to challenge the announcement in court.

“But more importantly, a state of disaster will allow government to bypass its own self-imposed obstacles, bottlenecks and cost inflations in the form of unworkable labour legislation, localisation requirements, cadre deployment and preferential procurement.“These ANC policies lie at the heart of Eskom’s collapse and need to be set aside if the utility is to recover,” he said at the time.

provide detail on improving and protecting the grid distribution network so energy can be easily fed into the grid by power producers to households and businesses; and

Honestly myan must just admit that they failed to maintain what apartheid government has built

How hyprocritical is the DA . They're the ones who called loadshedding to be declared as the State of Disaster earlier on. At this current juncture the President acceded to their call and they are changing a tune by resorting to take the President to court.

Good luck DA. They will loot under your noses and you will sit and eat around the pot together. Lekke

start governmentsalaryshedding to help the whole country coz the majority of us a battling just to put food on the table and just survive and they just do not care for any of us, just about how much they can put in their pockets, let see how fast things change then

Honestly myan must just admit that they failed to maintain what apartheid government has built

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