JOHANNESBURG - Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said that South Africa's had less power cuts compared to the same period last year.
He said they have made significant progress in addressing issues of load shedding, with a heavy focus on planned maintenance. Ramokgopa told journalists at a briefing on Monday, that over the 2022/23 period, the country had 1,800 hours of load shedding."So essentially, we have been able to reduce the hours of load shedding by about 600 hours. So what is the point I am making? It's that we are going in the right direction. Ultimately, we would like to get to a situation where I can stand in front of the public and say we have not experienced any hours of load shedding.
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