Emergency Plan to Tackle South Africa’s Energy Crisis Remains Work in Progress
- Plan to buy excess supply from private producers is incomplete
- Eskom has increased budget allocated for critical maintenance
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised in late July to implement emergency measures within three months to tackle record blackouts. But those have only been partially implemented and outages continue.
Ramaphosa plans to deal with energy-related issues when he addresses parliament in Cape Town on Thursday, his spokesman Vincent Magwenya said. He declined to comment on the specifics.