{"id":251727,"date":"2023-03-03T12:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/national-state-of-disaster-was-inevitable-dlamini-zuma\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T10:53:42","slug":"national-state-of-disaster-was-inevitable-dlamini-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/national-state-of-disaster-was-inevitable-dlamini-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"National State of Disaster was ‘inevitable’ \u2013 Dlamini Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, says the declaration of the National State of Disaster pertaining to the impact of Severe Electricity Supply Constraints was unavoidable.<\/p>\n

The Minister was speaking at a media briefing by various Ministers and Eskom to update the nation on government\u2019s plans for the energy crisis.<\/p>\n

She described the escalating load shedding as a catalyst for the need to urgently address the generation shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe declaration of the National State of Disaster became inevitable because of the impact of load shedding on the public and many sectors were being affected. So as a way of trying to minimise the impact, we had to then declare.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regulations on the whole are there to minimise that impact. Of course they are there to also assist Eskom to do some of the things that the normal legislation may be slower [to do] and through the National State of Disaster, they will be able to do them faster,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Minister spelled out the objectives of the National State of Disaster regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regulations are meant to minimise the impact of load shedding on the economy, on livelihoods, on people\u2019s health, on agriculture, security, education, water services to name but a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also meant to reduce and manage the impact of load shedding on the delivery and support of life saving infrastructure [and] also [to] provide measures to enable connectivity and provide measures for Eskom to improve their plant performance and the supply of electricity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe various Ministers who are affected by the regulations will obviously have to issue directions on how then they are going to apply those regulations in their own areas of competence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that the regulations provide for practical and urgent solutions to the impact that load shedding has on businesses and service delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regulations are also to ensure that we can save lives. If there is load shedding for instance in an ante-natal unit and there are babies in incubators, you can imagine what can happen. That\u2019s why the regulations also emphasise the issue of ensuring that the health infrastructure is exempted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen farmers culling chicks because of the load shedding. Some were spilling thousands of litres of milk because they couldn\u2019t keep it fresh. [Some] small businesses have closed\u2026all those kinds of things\u2026the regulations will try and assist,\u201d she said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, says the declaration of the National State of Disaster pertaining to the impact of Severe Electricity Supply Constraints was unavoidable. The Minister was speaking at a media briefing by various Ministers and Eskom to update the nation on government\u2019s plans for the energy crisis. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-251727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/national-state-of-disaster-was-inevitable-dlamini-zuma.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}