ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe says the party’s NEC believes South Africans need to look at their own sustainable electricity supply. Photo: amr amr / Flickr and @Eskom_SA / Twitter
Is the ANC over Eskom? NEC urges locals to look into alternative energy
According to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe, the party’s NEC says South Africans should look at their own sustainable electricity supply.
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe says the party’s NEC believes South Africans need to look at their own sustainable electricity supply. Photo: amr amr / Flickr and @Eskom_SA / Twitter
Spokesperson for the African National Congress (ANC) Pule Mabe seems to have lost hope in Eskom.
ANC NEC says citizens should find their own sustainable electricity supply
Mabe says the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC has made calls for locals to find alternative ways to access a sustainable supply of electricity. He did add that Government will ensure that less fortunate communities will have some aid provided to them.
The news follows Eskom implementing Stage 6 load shedding across Mzansi as rolling blackouts continue to impact businesses and people.
“Things have changed” – Mabe on reliance on electricity in SA
Mabe was speaking at the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 6 July. He was addressing what was discussed at the meeting held by the ANC’s NEC last weekend. Mabe believes solar power is something that locals should look at, reports SABC News.
“This is no longer 1975 where our people relied on primer stoves and candle lights, things have changed. So we need energy security so that we can be able to aid and boost effort towards economic reconstruction and recovery,”
said ANC spokeserperson Pule Mabe.
Gauteng: Power utility blames ‘equipment failure’ for prolonged power outages
In other Eskom-related news, it was previously reported that embattled power utility Eskom has pointed toward electricity equipment failure as its reason for failing to restore supply to areas affected by blackouts across Gauteng.
Eskom said it is facing challenges in terms of limited stock levels of mini substations as well as transformers. It explained that this is due to a recorded ‘exponential number’ of failed electricity equipment from network overloading.
As of 6 July 2022, Eskom has replaced and repaired 116 out of 181 damaged mini-substations. In terms of transformers, 1 326 out of 2 314 were replaced and repaired – this set the utility back a whopping R152 million. Read the full story here.
