ActionSA to oppose Eskom’s attempt to evade responsibility for protecting the most vulnerable from rolling blackouts
13 June 2024
ActionSA denounces and will oppose Eskom’s erroneous petition to the SCA for leave to appeal, which seeks to preserve the status quo where the most vulnerable continue to suffer the consequences of rolling blackouts.
We believe that this petition is further evidence of the reality that both Eskom and Government’s intention is simply to delay and avoid accountability for the crisis born out of their own mismanagement. Without question, the primary objective is less about addressing the severe impact of loadshedding, but rather to evade responsibility and prolong the suffering of the most vulnerable members of society.
In a landmark judgment handed down by the Full Bench of the North Gauteng High Court on December 1, 2023, the court ruled in favour of ActionSA’s ‘humanitarian relief’ request that hospitals, schools, and police stations be exempted from experiencing rolling blackouts.
Informed by the need to protect the most vulnerable members of society, ActionSA sought to ensure that these critical institutions were protected from the devastating impact of rolling blackouts, coined euphemistically as ‘loadshedding’.