ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula has sent out a strong message to energy and mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe and electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramakgopa.
This comes after media reports had stated that the two minister’s are embroiled in a territorial war.
Ramokgopa wants to have his mandate extended by President Cyril Ramaphosa to deal with load shedding, but the Electricity Minister’s attempt was thwarted by Gordhan and Mantashe.
A weekly newspaper reported that Mantashe was at loggerheads with Ramakgopa and he gave president Cyril Ramaphosa to either fire him than assign his duties to the later.
“The president can’t allow reports like there is a fallout… there [are] territorial battles as if this country is leaderless. We expect the president to run his Cabinet. Not his Cabinet running itself. If he’s got a problem with that, we will have a problem with him,” he said.
Mbalula noted that South Africans were not worried about the territorial battles but rather want feasible electricity solutions that will see the loadshedding ending.
He added that this was not the right time for the two minister’s to be embroiled in territorial battles.
“South Africans are not interested about territorial battles. They are interested about what is it that we do to increase generation capacity in the country.”
Ramakgopa was assigned by president Ramaphosa earlier this year to resolve the energy crisis which is taking the country by storm.
He has failed to meet his targets becaise loadshedding has escalated under his watch.
Earlier this month, Ramokgopa proposed that government extend the life of some of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations to avoid losing megawatts (MW) in generation capacity.
The loadshedding crisis seems to be an unending one.
