The most severe power cuts ever experienced in South Africa are threatening food and water supplies and disrupting the lives of millions of people, including chicken farmers.
Director-general in the presidency Phindile Baleni says bureaucracy makes it difficult for the government to respond in an “agile manner” to the energy crisis.
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.