When asked what measures had been put in place under the state of disaster, Nkadimeng said that many other smaller measures were taken, mostly at a local government level, relating to hospitals and schools being able to get access to mitigation efforts much faster.
He also noted that some of the bigger measures – such as Eskom being granted an exemption to speed up the Kusile Power Station’s return to service – were done outside of the Disaster Management Act, again raising the question of why the state of disaster was needed at all. Defending the state of disaster, deputy Cogta minister Parks Tau said that the measure was declared at a time when load shedding stages were escalating, and periods of outages were becoming longer.However, he stressed that the state of disaster was under constant review. Given that there is now a dedicated ministry to focus on the prevailing crisis, and mitigation efforts can be executed without “extraordinary” measures in place, there is no longer a need for the state of disaster, he said.
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