South Africa's president to skip WEF to deal with crippling power cuts at home

since Tuesday when struggling state utility Eskom said it would implement its worst-ever outages until further notice.

The power cuts are a major source of public frustration with the governing African National Congress and a brake on economic growth in Africa's most industrialised nation. "Currently the President is convening a meeting with leaders of political parties represented in parliament, NECCOM and the Eskom board," Vincent Magwenya, presidential spokesman said.

He added that further briefing sessions with key stakeholders will take place during this coming week. The beleaguered utility supplies the vast majority of South Africa's electricity, relying mainly on an ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations that are unreliable and prone to faults.

Maybe he's looking for another million or 2 under a couch cushion. 😂🤣😂

This guy doesn't have a grip

Is he an engineer?

Privilégiez les investissements aux énergies renouvelables

Cyril is all about PR🚮🚮🚮

Somebody please tell him to go, he had been cutting his trips short for no reason.

did he tell you tht he is appearing in court on the 19th?

Not power cut we don't have electricity anymore

Nincompoop.

As if he has anything to offer...or a solution to this..☹️

He is lying. Ramaphosa has a criminal court case to answer to. He has to appear in court on the 19th January. He is not going to davos to address no energy crisis.

It is just a lame excuse. He is doing nothing much about it. Currently the cowntry is experiencing heavy and longer power cuts causing some business to close down 💔💔

My friend from SA told me a joke. 'How do you know if a South African has a generator?' 'They'll tell you.'

And maybe to avoid another embarrassing global dressing down by Richard Quest.

They don’t care about Africa You’ll see that soon

WalterMfana Gayton Mc Kenzie has offered his services to fix Eskom why hasn’t the president engaged with him?

They lied to you . He does this all the time and does nothing. He just avoids you guys asking him difficult questions

There's a smart man! Wish the Canadian PM would take note instead of dancing around everywhere he goes

Maybe he should have gone along and asked for advice on how to run a national power grid.

Rightly so..he has nothing to offer investors until the electricity crisis is resolved. This would have been a waste of everyone' time & our money.

MBuhari over to you. NigeriaGov

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