As anticipated, Kgosientso Ramokgopa has been appointed as South Africa’s Minister of Electricity, a position which President Cyril Ramaphosa described as transitory and which has been created specifically to coordinate efforts to tackle the “severity and frequency of loadshedding as a matter of urgency”. “The Minister in the Presidency for Electricity will liaise with other relevant Ministers to ensure coherence in the issuing of directions during the National State of Disaster.
