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Ramaphosa cuts Egypt trip short to attend to power crisis The Presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will cut short his state visit to Egypt. It says he will return home to deal with the deepening power crisis that the country is facing.

The Presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will cut short his state visit to Egypt. It says he will return home to deal with theThe country has seen six straight days of nationwide load shedding. Earlier,Load shedding in the country has led to the shutting down ofMobile network operator, MTN, says it has put contingency plans in place to mitigate the impact of load shedding to its customers.However, MTN says it’s concerned that the batteries do not last for long periods.

MTN Executive of Corporate Affairs, Jacqui O’Sullivan, says the company is spending R1 million in three days for fuel to power generators. “The problem that we are facing is that once we move past Schedule 3 we start moving into the areas where it’s just not giving us enough time to reload our batteries. So, we’ve got the batteries that have a capacity for 6 to 12 hours, but we do need 12 hours to 18 hours to reload those batteries so that is where the complexity starts to get into it, so, we got batteries; we got generators. At the moment, we are fortunate; we don’t have many sites down.

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MBuhari when

Did he find out about the crisis whilst in Egypt or he knew prior to his departure and if so why did he leave to start with...him cutting his trip short signifies nothing

Why did he leave knowing the crisis Mxm

So what this persistent Eskom crisis tells us as VOTERS is that the government that we have elected is failing to resolve this crisis once and for all? Is that the conclusion that we should make? MYANC Our_DA eff anFFPlusVoter IFPinParliament UDmRevolution

So what this persistent Eskom crisis tells us as VOTERS is that the government that we have elected is failing to resolve this crisis once and for all? Is that the conclusion that we should make? PresidencyZA jsteenhuisen BantuHolomisa Julius_S_Malema CyrilRamaphosa

why not use efficient nuclear power energy. You have Russia in BRICS a fully fledged country in nuclear energy.

sheischarity_ President 'Thuma-mina' we want to 'Thuma' you to Eskom

How irresponsible is this president by spending our money like this didn't he knows about this before leaving the country.mxm this cancer is going deeper now.on demolition everything in their way.he should have known better instead of running to Egypt

And then what...

Sophie_Mokoena What is it that he hasn't done before that he will do differently this time around? Haibo kudlalwa ngabantu nje

For what,what is it that he is going to do now that he didn't do before?

jsteenhuisen thank you John, believe our President is on his way back to attend to our crisis.

This is interesting.... I wonder how he will 'fix' the issue.... 'You over there! Go dry that pile of coal!'

As he should.💀

Drama

PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa Thank you Mr President. We await your leadership and swift action.

That is a great move by the President but I don't think it will ever make any difference he was here when it started , he knew about it so for the sake of the people he must be here to suffer as well

He's phone is fully charged 🤣🤣🤣

What's he gonna do though?

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