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Ramaphosa: Short-term Stage 6 pain for long-term gain
CAPE TOWN - Stage 6 power cuts are short-term pain for long-term gain.
That's the assurance from President Cyril Ramaphosa on the ongoing crippling blackouts.
He says Eskom has to take these drastic measures to permanently eradicate power cuts.
"The load-shedding that we're going through now is occasioned by what Eskom is having to do to reposition the generation of our fleet.
"They are maintaining our fleet, they are making sure that incidents of load-shedding that have been given rise to in the past as a result of unplanned load-shedding events are put behind us," Ramaphosa said.
"This, much as it is, Stage 6. It's of a short-term nature.
"The Minister of Electricity has briefed me thoroughly about the processes that Eskom is going through.
"So there is short-term pain for longer term gain."