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South Africa’s National Energy Crisis Committee, a body run by the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa, expects record power outages to ease as measures put in place, including a new law to fast-track plant development, take effect. | News24_Business

The committee, of which several cabinet ministers are members, told business and labor leaders on Monday that a range of interventions have been made at a time when South Africans was enduring blackouts of as much as 12 hours a day.

Emergency legislation is being developed to allow the faster approval and development of power plants.

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_Business I am not expecting any major improvements, this is just a PR exercise, if the ANC was serious about addressing the power issues, they would have done so a long time ago.

_Business If you read that report it implies it will ease maybe in 12 months. By then 100s more businesses would have closed down

_Business 18% Increase, now how much is this gonna cost SA?

_Business Why now? If this was ever possible, why was it not done years ago? This sound like the same BS that Loadshedding is.

_Business I won't hold my breath

_Business Provide the list of projects, locations, capacity and in service date.

_Business eskomsalaryshedding over 40 000 employees and nobody can fix the problem, and now they got more money, let's start salary shedding at Eskom and see how quickly they fix the problem Eskomsalaryshedding instead of punishing the people who pay their bills.

_Business 10 years too late

_Business These news about the ANC 'trying the best they can' to fix this load shedding crisis is more depressing than load shedding itself. They are molesting us and insulting our intelligence at the same time.

_Business MYANC Fokkof

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