Eskom crisis: ANC NEC hears calls for state of emergency, moving power utility to energy dept

The African National Congress’s (ANC’s) national executive committee (NEC) heard wide-ranging and spirited calls for intervention in response to the Eskom energy crisis, which ranged from the declaration of a state of emergency to immediately moving Eskom from the Department of Public Enterprises to the Department of Energy. Sources who attended the NEC meeting, which began on Saturday and ended on Monday, noted that there was an acknowledgement that South Africa’s energy shortages and ongoing rolling blackouts were a crisis.