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Making headlines: Eskom says power system will take up to 10 days to recover from strike impact, chaos as ANC's Moses Mabhida conference fails And, Makhura says government needs to stop seeing civil society as an enemy

 

Eskom says power system will take up to 10 days to recover from strike impact

State electricity company Eskom said yesterday that its power system remained constrained and would take up to ten days to recover from the effects of last week's wage strike.        

Eskom warned consumers to work on the assumption that rolling power interruptions, or loadshedding, implemented over the last few days to ease pressure on the grid could still take place despite being averted yesterday.

At the weekend, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said the zero percent proposal by Eskom was now "off the table".

 

Chaos as ANC's Moses Mabhida conference fails

The ANC delegates for the Moses Mabhida region have spoken of frustration and disappointment at being unable to hold the conference in which they wanted to elect new leaders.    

Delegates were told late yesterday afternoon that the scheduled three-day regional conference would not take place.       

A member of the Provincial Task Team Nhlakanipho Ntombela told the frustrated delegates that the party leadership had decided to delay the hosting of the regional conference until the finalisation of the court case in July.

 

Makhura says government needs to stop seeing civil society as an enemy

Gauteng premier and acting ANC provincial chairperson David Makhura has admitted that had his government listened to civic organisations, the Life Esidimeni tragedy would not have happened.

Makhura delivered a closing address at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation's three-day inaugural inclusive growth conference yesterday where he called for a need to help improve the efficacy of rights organisations in the country.

He said if it wasn't for civil society mobilisation and civil society activism we would not have emerged from the nightmare we are just emerging from,referring to former President Jacob Zuma's tumultuous tenure as leader of both the ANC and the country.

 

Also making headlines:

Three former South African Revenue Service executives are expected to appear at the Pretoria Regional Court today on charges of corruption.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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