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Making headlines: DA demands Parliament reconvene to act on Eskom crisis, wife of IFP leader Buthelezi dies And, 128 000 people in makeshift camps after Mozambique cyclone

 

DA demands Parliament reconvene to act on Eskom crisis

Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane today said he has written to the Speaker of Parliament to ask that the legislature reconvene and set up an ad hoc committee to resolve the electricity crisis that prompted Eskom to implement advanced stage load-shedding in recent weeks.

Maimane said the committee should comprise the portfolio committees of Energy, Public Enterprises and Trade and Industry and it should summon relevant Ministers and officials to explain why the crisis occurred and what steps were taken to prevent it.

His letter to Speaker Baleka Mbete also called for "moving for any urgent, necessary legislative amendments to existing legislation and regulations to deal with the potentially imminent threat of the collapse of the national energy grid and the threat it poses to the national economy".

Maimane accused the government of lacking a clear plan to end the crisis.

 

Wife of IFP leader Buthelezi dies

The wife of Inkatha Freedom Party leader Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Irene, has died after a long illness, the family said today.

In a statement her family said Princess Irene passed away following a long and difficult illness.

She leaves behind her husband of almost 67 years, their children Prince Ntuthukoyezwe Zuzifa, Princess Phumzile Nokuphiwa and Princess Sibuyiselwe Angela, and many grandchildren.

 

128 000 people in makeshift camps after Mozambique cyclone

The number of people in makeshift camps after a powerful cyclone in Mozambique has risen by 18 000 to 128 000 but the death toll remains roughly unchanged at 447, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said today.

Correia told reporters that the number of people saved in National Institute of Disaster Management camps had increased to 128 000.

Cyclone Idai lashed the Mozambican port city of Beira with winds of up to 170 km/h, then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi, flattening buildings and killing at least 656 people across the three countries.

 

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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