JOHANNESBURG - The private sector has raised R100-million to help government alleviate the impact of power cuts.
Resources Mobilisation Fund chairperson Martin Kingston says the money is solely to pay for expertise.
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Kingston says the private sector knows that the skills and resources needed, are available in the country.
“I need to emphasize, the R100-million is explicitly and solely to pay for expertise that we will be procuring.
"So as I said, in the next few hours we will be releasing the 1st IRP’s for legal resources, for project management skills, for communications expertise, for tariff expertise.
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"Like engineers to work at the power stations because we know those resources exist in the country but they need to be paid or we need to contract with them," he said.
"And we think that will be the best way to efficiently expedite addressing the issues in the short term.
"That of course is increasing supply and reducing demand so we can shorten the time we have to experience the load shedding that is impacting upon the country at large.”