It has handed 96 000 loadshedding relief packs so far to schools and other vulnerable centres, like shelters.
Despite the lack of loadshedding for more than 30 days now, according to the CEO of Eskom, blackouts are likely to return during the upcoming winter months. To get ahead of the outages, the government of the Western Cape are handing “loadshedding relief packages” to schools in the poorer areas of the province.
“As much as we are investing in protecting essential municipal services during power cuts, we are going a step further to offer vulnerable citizens further assistance to mitigate the impact of the energy crisis,” explained Winde. “Load shedding has a disproportionately higher impact on the poor who unlike wealthier residents are not able to protect themselves against its impact, thus heightening the risk of further increasing inequality,” the provincial government indicates in a
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