The National Executive Committee of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) wants a national “state of disaster” to be declared to help end crippling power cuts, ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday.
The government used the declaration of a national state of disaster to help it respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mbalula told reporters on Tuesday that the ANC executive also wanted an energy crisis committee to speed up its work.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa cancelled a planned appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos this month because of the power shortages. He is expected to announce new measures to boost power supply when he delivers a state of the nation address on Feb. 9.