{"id":256728,"date":"2023-04-05T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/south-africa-government-terminates-national-state-of-disaster-on-electricity-supply-constraints?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-04-05T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:53:37","slug":"south-africa-government-terminates-national-state-of-disaster-on-electricity-supply-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africa-government-terminates-national-state-of-disaster-on-electricity-supply-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Government Terminates National State of Disaster on Electricity Supply Constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/912c4d03d14212b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/912c4d03d14212b\" alt=\"South African Government\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/912c4d03d14212b\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=249145&amp;press_source=South African Government\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Government has terminated, with immediate effect, the National State of Disaster&nbsp;declared by the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 9&nbsp;February 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The State of Disaster was a necessary response to the impact of critical levels of load&nbsp;shedding on the economy and vulnerable sectors such as health and small&nbsp;businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Following the declaration of the State of Disaster in February, government adopted&nbsp;wide-ranging regulations which set out the responsibilities of the different organs of&nbsp;the state to mitigate the impact of severe load shedding, prevent the escalation of&nbsp;electricity supply constraints, and avert a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>These regulations and the underlying actions were put in place in support of the&nbsp;Energy Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>This was to support an effective and integrated response across all spheres of&nbsp;government.<\/p>\n<p>The state of disaster enabled government to enhance interventions by the National&nbsp;Energy Crisis Committee in terms of the Energy Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The interventions in the Energy Action Plan aim to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix Eskom and improve the availability of existing supply.<\/li>\n<li>Enable and accelerate private investment in generation capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate procurement of new capacity from renewables, gas and battery storage<\/li>\n<li>Unleash businesses and households to invest in rooftop solar.<\/li>\n<li>Fundamentally transform the electricity sector to achieve long-term energy security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A significant enabler of the improvement in the supply of electricity has been the&nbsp;&nbsp;appointment by President Cyril Ramaphosa of Dr Kgosientso Ramokgopa as Minister&nbsp;of Electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister has in recent weeks undertaken oversight visits to power stations and&nbsp;consultations within government, including with Eskom, to identify and resolve&nbsp;electricity supply constraints.<\/p>\n<p>As a structure that integrates areas of responsibility and resources within government,&nbsp;the National Energy Crisis Committee provides support to the Minister in the&nbsp;identification and resolution of bottlenecks.<\/p>\n<p>In view of these developments, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and&nbsp;Traditional Affairs, Ms Thembisile Nkadimeng, has decided to terminate the National&nbsp;State of Disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster declaration was published in Government Gazette No. 48009 in Notice&nbsp;No.3019 in terms of Section 27(5)(b) of the Disaster Management Act, 57 of 2002 as&nbsp;amended.<\/p>\n<p>Following the termination of the state of disaster, all regulations and directions made&nbsp;in terms of Section 27(2) of the Act pursuant to the declaration of the national state of&nbsp;disaster to deal with the impact or the severe electricity supply constraint are repealed&nbsp;with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Government will, through the Energy Crisis Committee continue to engage, cooperate&nbsp;and coordinate its actions to reduce and eradicate load shedding using existing&nbsp;legislation and contingency arrangements.&nbsp;These include measures already taken to protect critical infrastructure, facilitate&nbsp;emergency energy generation and protection consumers in terms of relevant&nbsp;competition law.<\/p>\n<p>A range of interventions and support measures introduced by departments as an&nbsp;accelerated response at the time the state of disaster was declared will be sustained&nbsp;in terms of existing legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Nkadimeng expresses her sincere appreciation for the constructive and&nbsp;collaborative way in which stakeholders in civil society have worked with government&nbsp;in a short space of time to achieve progress in keeping the lights on and enabling the&nbsp;economy and public services to function more productively.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of South African Government.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Government has terminated, with immediate effect, the National State of Disaster&nbsp;declared by the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 9&nbsp;February 2023. The State of Disaster was a necessary response to the impact of critical levels of load&nbsp;shedding on the economy and vulnerable sectors such as health and small&nbsp;businesses. 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