Energy crisis: National State of Disaster declared

Ten months after the national state of disaster for Covid-19 was lifted, South Africa just entered a new one, this time for load shedding.

On Thursday evening, during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address in Cape Town, Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma gazetted a new declaration of a national state of disaster.

To view a copy of the Gazette published by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on the 9th of February 2023, click on the link below:

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