Reactions to president Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address are flooding in, with most commentators left wanting. The stand-out announcement from the address was the declaration of South Africa’s energy crisis as a national state of disaster. “We do not believe that a state of disaster will cure the government’s inability to address the crisis. “For the government to prove it is serious about solving the energy crisis, it needs to set a deadline to end load shedding so that we can rescue our economy and create jobs. He talked of hope in a country that has lost all hope.”Read: South Africa declares a national state of disaster over load shedding
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