Ramaphosa Energy Czar Powerless as Winter Blackouts Loom
- Functions to be taken from energy, public enterprise ministers
- Ramokgopa to table plans to meeting of ruling party executives
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing increasing pressure to hand powers to his new electricity minister and enable him to make decisions to stave off more intense blackouts as peak winter demand looms.
Two months after Ramaphosa appointed Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to the post, the president has yet to clarify what capacities he will transfer from the energy and public enterprises ministries, which have responsibility for policy and the state electricity company respectively, to the new office.