Energy crisis can hardly be categorised as a disaster, says expert

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Shocking state: President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address at City Hall in Cape Town, where he announced the electricity crisis as a national state of disaster. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg

Within days, two national state of disasters were declared but South Africans still need “some convincing” by the government’s track record on disaster management, a governance expert says.

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Sheree Bega

Sheree Bega is an environment reporter at the Mail & Guardian.

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