Discussion | Can Eskom exempt essential services from power cuts?

JOHANNESBURG - Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and Eskom have been ordered to exempt essential services from power cuts by the end of January next year.

This means institutions like schools, hospitals, clinics and police stations should never have their lights off during load shedding. 

READ: High Court rules hospitals, schools be exempt from blackouts

Civil society groups and political parties took the matter to court to declare blackouts a violation of human rights.

Senior Legal Analyst and member of the South African Legal Practice Council, Advocate Romeo Nthambeleni had a discussion with the eNCA on this.