Winter Power Failures News Today

thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. its a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put us into a category of a failed state, its an exaggeration. ican give... but you think thats a conversation that south africans are having amongst themselves? well, it comes from pockets of the powerful thinkers in the country who project us as displayi...

features of the economy that is fluctuating at an international level, which has had an impact on our own economy, but also partly some of our own weaknesses in terms of managing the economy well. we are under recovery. and objectively, the covid—19 messed up a lot of countries. the ukraine/russia war in itself has shattered most economies in the world and it has brought a high level of cost of living and a number of challenges that have affected adversely the developing nations. so ...

but right now, south africa is in a big mess, with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality, and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. its a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges...

with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. its a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put ...

Infrastructure development. we have built power utilities, but we did not refurbish some, and that coincided with our plans in terms of addressing the just transition. decommissioning some of the utilities also has affected the progress that we seek to make to maintain the lights on. but all of that has now been addressed and has been attended to. yeah, you say this is all being addressed. south africans would only wish that were true. the acting ceo of eskom said the risk of stage eight outages...

The acting ceo of eskom said the risk of stage eight outages this winter is extremely high unless things change, and right now they dont look as though theyre going to change. what they have said to us and the plan that they are implementing to address the surge of winter power failures, they will stabilise that through diesel. but were not looking at short—term measures. were looking at the totality of things that we need to do to solve this problem of load shedding. the renewables. how do we...