ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has conceded that the government’s failure to find a solution to load shedding will affect the fortunes of the governing party, but it would not remove it from power.
ANC SECRETARY-general Fikile Mbalula has conceded that the government has failed to find a solution to load shedding will affect the fortunes of the governing party.
In an interview with the BBC’s HARDtalk with Stephen Sackur, Mbalula said the ANC had given government and SA ministers a mandate that load shedding must be ended before the end of the year.
“This load shedding has just made a mess of our country and projected us as something else,” he said.
Mbalula acknowledged the cost that load shedding was having on the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), adding that the country could not afford the loss.
“That is why we are focused on dealing with it,” he said.
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Referring to load shedding as SA’s Achilles heel, Mbalula added that load shedding would affect the fortunes of the ANC to register an outright majority at the polls.
“If it is not dealt with decisively, it will affect (the party) but it will not take the ANC totally out of power,” he told Sackur.
SA is currently on Stages 4 and 5 of load shedding.
Mbalula further spoke about corruption in South Africa.
He said if certain things were not resolved, the country would become a failed state.
“But we are not journeying towards that direction. South Africa is undergoing challenges like any other country, but I think to put it into the category of a failed state is an exaggeration,” Mbalula said.
