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CEOs of companies which are members of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa have called on government to urgently intervene in stopping a potential shortage of food, medicine and other essential goods due to rolling blackouts.

The CEOs say Eskom’s maintenance of units through emergency power generators is financially unsustainable.The letter comes as Ramaphosa prepares to deliver his State of the Nation Address in the Cape Town City Hall this evening.“Load shedding has affected across the country, even from a supply chain efficiency perspective.

They say this is a risk to human rights and the constitution and will open the floodgates to rampant corruption. The expert panel also warns that a state of disaster will not resolve the energy crisis currently crippling the country.

 

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