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South Africa, its state of disaster made official, is to have a minister of electricity in the presidency whose job is to end load-shedding. This was the news the nation was waiting for on Thursday night, and the moment President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster during his State of the Nation Address (Sona), his audience in the Cape Town City Hall cheered.