ANC MP Sylvia Lucas drew ire from social media with her remarks about loadshedding during a speech she gave at the SONA Debate.
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When it was Lucas’s turn to dish out the vitriol against opposition MPs, not only did she choose the wrong words, but her entire delivery was cringeworthy, to say the least.
Lucas, with an intensely arrogant posture, shrugged off loadshedding as a subject ANC naysayers use to exaggerate the ruling party’s inefficiencies.
Fervently defending Cyril Ramaphosa’s flailing reputation, Lucas exclaimed in Afrikaans that rotational blackouts implemented by Eskom as a measure to prevent a nationwide power system failure was “not the end of the world.”
Moreover, and quite ironically, Lucas downplayed the notion of sabotage being a critical factor in the power utility’s efforts to curb loadshedding, a sentiment recently shared by ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.
“President [Cyril Ramaphosa], as soon as you talk about loadshedding, there is sabotage, we must look into that,” she mocked.
As expected, Lucas’s comments riled up many South Africans, who, on Tuesday, grappled with a loadshedding schedule rotating between Stage 3 and Stage 4.