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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Pretoria high court has ordered minister of electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to \u201ctake all reasonable steps\u201d \u2014 by no later than January 31 \u2014 to ensure public hospitals, clinics, schools and police stations are not affected by load-shedding.<\/p>\n

<\/a>In a unanimous judgment of three judges, judge Norman Davis said this order was \u201cjust and equitable\u201d, once the court had determined that load-shedding breached several constitutional rights.The court also declared that load-shedding breached the rights to human dignity, life, freedom and security of the person, to an environment that was not harmful to people\u2019s health and wellbeing, the right of access to healthcare services, food, and water and the right to basic education.<\/p>\n

A similar order had been granted by the same bench in May, but it was directed at the minister for public enterprises. The minister appealed against the order. Davis said in his judgment the minister\u2019s grounds of appeal had been that \u201cthe order was alleged to be vague, that it was impossible to implement as the minister did not have the power to generate and supply electricity, that the order was not competent in law for the same reason and that the order violated the separation of powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

The effect of the application for leave to appeal was to put the May order on hold. But what then happened, in September, was that it fell away. This was because the applicants \u2014 the UDM, other political parties, trade unions and individuals \u2014 ended up withdrawing the second half of their case, or Part B.This meant that Part A, under which the May order was given, lapsed. The application for leave to appeal then became \u201cmoot\u201d \u2014 there was no need for it any more. In a complicated turn of events \u2014 because three different cases on load-shedding were being heard together \u2014 the DA\u2019s and the SA Local Government Association\u2019s (Salga) cases, which overlapped with the UDM\u2019s case, remained, and were argued before the same judges.<\/p>\n

In the judgment, Davis said the government had conceded that people\u2019s rights had been breached. Though they had argued that the court should not declare this to be so, \u201cconsiderations of public policy, justice and convenience and the continued existence of an infringement of constitutional rights\u201d made it appropriate to grant a declaratory order. This left the \u201cvexing question\u201d of what would be the appropriate relief, once such a declaration was made, he said.<\/p>\n

He said the court was \u201cmindful\u201d of the separation of powers and that orders which implicate budgets of organs of state should be exercised sparingly. But \u201cnowhere has it been indicated in the opposing papers … that the relief previously granted in Part A of the UDM\u2019s application would cripple the state,\u201d he said. It was also clear the government\u2019s plans all envisaged \u201csome relief at some future date (only)\u201d.<\/p>\n

The appointment of a minister of electricity took care of the minister of public enterprise\u2019s objections in his application for leave to appeal, said the judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find no cogent reasons why those orders, albeit slightly modified, dealing with immediate relief cannot and should not be granted. To do so would at least provide relief for learners going into the new school year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, all the other orders sought by the parties were refused by the court.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. The Pretoria high court has ordered minister of electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to \u201ctake all reasonable steps\u201d \u2014 by no later than January 31 \u2014 to ensure public hospitals, clinics, schools and police stations are not affected by load-shedding. 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