President Jacob Zuma has told Parliament that electricity "demand will exceed supply for the next 24 to 36 months".
Eskom has implemented load-shedding to ration insufficient supply and this is now likely to continue for the next three years.
Zuma defended his claim that apartheid was the cause of the electricity supply problem‚ saying: “Eskom added 160‚000 households to the grid in the past financial year‚ which added to the demand for electricity“.
He said these were households were “not supplied by apartheid“.
He said that the public enterprise minister‚ Lynne Brown‚ had asked Eskom to accelerate the completion of its build programme.
The construction of the Medupi power station is running several years behind schedule.
Zuma: Three more years of load-shedding
Eskom has implemented load-shedding to ration insufficient supply and this is now likely to continue for the next three years.
Zuma defended his claim that apartheid was the cause of the electricity supply problem‚ saying: “Eskom added 160‚000 households to the grid in the past financial year‚ which added to the demand for electricity“.
He said these were households were “not supplied by apartheid“.
He said that the public enterprise minister‚ Lynne Brown‚ had asked Eskom to accelerate the completion of its build programme.
The construction of the Medupi power station is running several years behind schedule.
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