The appointment of special advisors is done in terms of section 12A of the Public Service Act, 1994 as amended and is limited to two full-time equivalent positions for each Minister and Premier, unless Cabinet or the relevant Provincial Executive Council approves a higher number up to two additional full-time equivalent for each Minister and Premier because of work requirements.

The National Energy Committee ...

(a) and (b)

Relationships in the workplace are a responsibility of everyone - employees, supervisors, managers, executives, and trade union relationships. The Recognition Agreement signed with trade unions governs these relations and management programmes driven from Human Resources (HR) are in place to ensure that there is an engaged workforce in a harmonious and safe working environment. We continue to do everything to achieve ...

The Energy Action Plan (EAP), announced in July 2022 remains government’s overarching strategy to tackle the energy crisis and to attain energy security.

Our set of interventions are buttressed on the following pillars.

• Fix Eskom and improve the availability of existing supply.
• Enable and accelerate private investment in generation capacity.
• Accelerate procurement of new capacity from renewables, gas and battery storage;
• Unleash businesses and ...

1. Improvement of the EAF is a function of, inter alia, progress on the generation capacity of the Eskom installed fleet, on boarding of renewable energy and success of the Demand Side Management (DSM) programme. The build operate transfer model is being discussed in relation to the development and expansion of the grid.

2. Please refer to answer above.

1. There was no emergency procurement undertaken during the state of disaster gazetted on 09 February 2023.

1. (i)-(ii), (bb), (cc) (dd) Notwithstanding work done by Eskom for risk mitigation, there was no emergency procurement done since the establishment of the National Energy Crisis Committee.

1. No.

1. The mandate holder for the JETIP belongs to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, we advise that you accordingly direct the matter to their office.

For maintenance and upgrades, Eskom uses a combination of outsourced and in-house capabilities, providing services such as servitude, transformer, and switchgear maintenance.

Eskom’s Enterprises business is geared up for some of this specialised work.

(2)(b)

For new build:

• The same as the above applies, even though the volume of in-house is much smaller.
• Eskom will use a combination of the multiple package system (engineering, ...

a) Twelve staff members

(b)

The Eskom board and management continues to deal with management and operational shortcomings that impede the optimisation of generation capacity, in this regard, the necessary disciplinary action is being pursued as required by relevant legislation and sector collective agreements.

In addition, an Energy Safety and Security Priority Committee was established to address ESKOM-related crime on an inter-departmental, multi-disciplinary basis to address the objectives of ...

An Energy Safety and Security Priority Committee was established to address ESKOM-related crime on an inter-departmental, multi-disciplinary basis to address the objectives of Work Stream Six of the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM).

A total of 1952 Eskom-related cases were reported to the SA Police Service between 1 April 2022 and 29 May 2023, with 1405 cases still under investigation, and 126 arrests have ...