SA heading for grid collapse ‘soon’, warns Malema

Malema briefed the media on Monday at the party's Marshalltown headquarters following the party's  Central Command Team Meeting.

Malema painted a dark picture of the country's power crisis, arguing that the appointment of Kgosientsho Ramokgopa as the minister of electricity will not bring any change.

Malema doesn't believe Ramokgopa is capable of stabilising the grid and bringing an end to load shedding.

"We don’t support anything of the minister of electricity, he never said anything that we said here – he will never come close to thinking like this.

“Sputla is corrupt – he collapsed the ANC leadership in Tshwane. It's him, Tshwane to be where it is today it's Sputla. South Africans you are so gullible, so gullible, that a person collapses a municipality and you say he can restore such a complex matter as electricity.

“He himself confessed that he doesn't know anything, he is relying on those people that have been there failing us," said Malema.

Following his appointment, Ramokgopa visited all 14 Eskom power stations.

But Malema says this cannot be seen as an achievement when the situation keeps getting worse.

"The appointment of the minister of electricity was actually bluffing, it was Ramaphosa trying to show us that he is doing something about the electricity crisis when he was actually not doing anything. The biggest achievement Sputla has achieved since he arrived there was to go to all power stations.

“How can that be an achievement? There is nothing he was doing except to tour stations and then that becomes the biggest ANC victory.

“After that visit do we have electricity? No, the situation has worsened.”

He warned that South Africa could experience a total grid collapse soon.

"In the next two weeks, we have been warned there is going to be darkness. We are almost at a point of grid collapse. It's a reality that South Africans must know, that we are heading to darkness and ANC politicians are continuing business as usual as if we are not in a crisis.

“We are in a deep, deep crisis. Cell phone networks will not work, and water even if we have it - we won't receive it, because it needs electricity.

“Nothing is going to function, we are heading for a disaster, worse than what Covid-19 was.”

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