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Western Cape sets up team, drafts budget to tackle power cuts

While South Africans experienced Stage 5 power cuts on Thursday, political parties in the Western Cape legislature debated the impact of the energy crisis on the province.

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A tourism boom in the Western Cape helped create 167,000 jobs in the three months through December, says Stats SA.

A CSIR report has put the power utility under scrutiny for under-reportingload-shedding stages and the megawatts cut. And there is concern that blackouts will intensify in winter

The province plans to facilitate the construction of almost 6GW of power generation capacity to counter nationwide electricity shortages.

The domestic tourism industry was the main driver of employment, followed by the financial and services industries, according to the provinces Premier.

South Africa’s only opposition-led province plans to facilitate the construction of almost 6 gigawatts of power generation capacity to counter nationwide electricity shortages and bolster the regional economy.

This past month, the Western Cape Provincial Parliament has been at the forefront of setting the agenda on moving urgently on the country’s energy crisis. During his State of the Province Address on 16 February, Premier Alan Winde, committed his Government and the Provincial Energy Council to accounting to the Provincial Parliament’s Ad-hoc Committee on the impact of load shedding in the Western Cape province. Last month, the DA submitted a motion for the creation of an Ad-hoc Commit...

With only one day to go before the State of the Province Address (SOPA) in Calvinia tomorrow, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has put forward several issues that we want Premier Zamani Saul to address, instead of presenting the same old story from previous years. The ANC, throughout loadshedding, has disempowered society, in the province, with agriculture the hardest hit. Electricity and infrastructural challenges have made it difficult for farmers to irrigate crops and keep produce cold.