“South africa: power Outages threaten the ANC”
“Three months before the election it looks bad for South africa’s governing party, the ANC – literally.”
“frequent power cuts have emerged as one of the greatest threats against president Cyril Ramaphosa.”
“South africa’s state utility company Eskom is inside on the fifth day of the planned outage. The population is raging over the traffic jams, closed shops, and hospitals, and factories without power. The south african currency has already been affected by the lack of a reliable power grid.”
“The crisis-ridden Eskom, which accounts for more than 90 per cent of the country’s electricity supply, announced surprisingly on Sunday that it would start turn off the power in an attempt to prevent a total collapse of the country’s power grid. The company is struggling since decades back with deep debt and has announced that the interruptions can last all the way to april. The inhabitants of the country can expect to be without power for two hours at a time, a total of twelve times in the fyradagarsperioder.”
“Without the financial assistance will Eskom collapse in april, according to the experts – just before south africans go to the polls on may 8.”
“the ruling party, the ANC has been in power in the country since the apartheidsystemets cases in 1994 and has never really been threatened. Now, the situation is different. President Cyril Ramaphosa came to power last year, and then took over a divided and war-torn governing party after Jacob Zuma’s nine years in the presidency. Zuma’s faction is accused of having plundered the Eskom and contributed to the anticipated collapse.”
“– The real competitor against the ANC is the electricity blackouts, not the opposition parties, says the south african-based analyst Daniel Silke to the AFP news agency.”
“the Government has so far talked quietly about possible financial assistance for Eskom, but has given a hint about a possible division of the company. On Thursday says the president Ramaphosa to a ”
“Corruption and mismanagement”
“– Eskoms future is fundamental for all of us. Only one party can put a stop to the corruption that has brought south Africa to the brink of disaster, ” says the party in an official statement.”
“the ANC has traditionally allied with the country’s trade unions – but now facing the fear of privatisation, cuts and job losses that put a spanner in the vänskapshjulen.”
“– We would like to advise ANC as a ruling party to not take people’s votes for granted, ” says the representative of the south african gruvarbetarfacket the National Union of Mineworkers, which was started in the 1980s by the right Cyril Ramaphosa.”
“On 8 may 2019 is the time for the parliamentary elections (which will be an indirect presidential elections) in south Africa.”
“this is The sixth election since the abolition of apartheid in 1994, and coincides with the 25th anniversary of democratic inclusion.”
“The ruling party, the African national congress (ANC) formed in 1912, with the objective to strengthen the rights of South africa’s black population. They won power in the first democratic elections in the country in 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president.”
“the ANC has since then retained its majority in the parliament.”
“The incumbent president Cyril Ramaphosa came to power in 2018 after the much-criticised Jacob Zuma, resigned. Ramaphosa stood next to Mandela when he was released from prison in 1990 and played a crucial role in the transition from apartheid to democracy. Ramaphosa elections in 2019, with promises of new jobs, stronger growth and the reduction of inequalities between the white and the black.”
“One of the most infected issues in south Africa’s land reform. The ANC has announced plans to change the constitution, because the whites still own most of the land.”
