Electricity and energy minister Kgosientso Ramokgopa has vowed to end load reduction affecting mostly poor areas within 12 months if there is no resistance in the affected communities.
In cases where communities resist for whatever reason, Ramokgopa said, they would extend the deadline by six months.
So now today Im announcing were ending load reduction, proclaimed Ramokgopa in a media briefing on Thursday. The period we have set ourselves is anything between 12 and 18 months but it can be exceptionally shorter than that.