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.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will spend Friday with residents of the ZF Mgcawu district in Upington, where he will address service delivery issues in the Northern Cape.
The government has used the fifth instalment of the nationwide presidential imbizo to announce steps it has taken in the Northern Cape to deal with the country’s energy crisis.
SA’s third wave of Covid-19 infections is dragging on longer than expected and behaving differently from the first and second waves, health minister Joe Phaahla said on Friday.