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The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Tshwane says it is escalating the City of Tshwane’s electricity crisis to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), as large parts of the city remain without stable power.
DA Tshwane mayoral candidate Cilliers Brink says weeks-long outages, especially in the east of Pretoria, show the city is failing to meet its legal obligations.
The party is accusing the ANC-led multi-party coalition of diverting money away from electricity maintenance to fund water tankers and private security instead.
Brink says the DA is launching a city-wide petition and preparing legal action to force an independent investigation into the state of the metro’s power grid.
He was briefing the media in Pretoria.
“It’s not something we do lightly. It’s very easy to criticise and we understand that the City’s electricity grid infrastructure is deteriorated, that there isn’t enough money, that there’s a funding issue. However, the experiences of the past few weeks have convinced us that if we want an independent assessment of the state of the electricity grid so as to inform good budget decisions, we are going to have to apply pressure,” says Brink.
