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Outa goes to court to overturn the electricity State of Disaster

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) says it will be bringing an urgent application against the government to overturn the National State of Disaster in connection with the electricity supply constraints. This comes after the Presidency declared a National State of Disaster and announced that the government seeks to appoint a minister of electricity, as power black-outs continue. The organisation says government has at its disposal legislation to deal with the current energy crisis. […]

today18 February 2023

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Public Enterprises minister points to difference between ‘state of disaster’ and ‘power system emergency’

LOCAL There are growing calls to declare an Eskom state of disaster, as commentators fingered rolling blackouts as the greatest threat to South Africa's economic recovery. Eskom is currently implementing stage two load-shedding until Monday morning. The DA is calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to "stop denying reality and acknowledge that the country is in the middle of an electricity emergency." Speaking in Parliament however, Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan […]

today5 May 2022

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National State of Disaster extended until October

The National State of Disaster has been extended until October 15. The decision was made by Cabinet on Thursday, September 10. The decision to extend was made to allow for the management of the spread of COVID-19 to continue. “Cabinet welcomes the drop in the number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks and the improved recovery rate that has increased to 87%. The number of people […]

today11 September 2020

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National state of disaster ends before court deadline to amend lockdown regulations

While the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered that the lockdown regulations, which were declared invalid and unconstitutional, be amended within 14 days, the national state of disaster is set to lapse before that deadline. On Tuesday, Judge Norman Davis found that, while the declaration of a national state of disaster to fight the Covid-19 pandemic was rational, many of the promulgated regulations for Level 4 and 3 of […]

today4 June 2020

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