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The R1-billion flood relief government has available to provide relief after April's floods in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape still haven't been accessed, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana told the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Flood Disaster Relief on Wednesday. National Treasury hasn't received any requests to access these funds.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan acknowledged that Eskom is in crisis but has dismissed suggestions that the utility is broken and heading for a “protracted failure”, saying that the restructuring under way will result in the emergence of a “completely different entity”. Speaking at the tail-end of a heated debate on the electricity crisis in the National Assembly, Gordhan acknowledged that Eskom’s current predicament had its roots in a failure by the ANC-led government to react quickly enough to warnings of an impending power shortage, as well as its failure to implement the 1998 White Paper.