Kevin Mileham, a DA MP who serves on parliament's energy portfolio committee, echoed Gwarube’s sentiments.
“It’s been 15 years of load-shedding, but the ANC knew about the programme long before then. In 1998 they were warned that if they didn’t build new power stations before 2007 SA would run out of electricity, and that’s exactly what happened,” Mileham said. He added the ruling party rushed out a tender in 2007 to build Medupi and Kusile, the two biggest coal power stations in the world, yet 15 years later those plants are not finished, are years behind schedule and hundreds of billions of rand over budget.
DA Youth leader Nicholas Nyathi rallied the crowd behind the march and said it would go down in history as the day each and every South African united behind a cause that says ““When others said they will defend Luthuli House, we stood up and said we will defend the dreams, hopes and aspirations of ordinary South Africans,” Nyathi said, referring to ANC Youth League members who vowed to defend the ruling party’s headquarters “at all costs”.
ANCYL task team national organiser Tlangi Mogale said they felt the need to come and peacefully protect the ANC head office. “We feel strongly that there is no political party that can wake up and decide to march to another party’s politics headquarters to submit a memorandum that has nothing to do with such an office.”
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