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Deputy President David Mabuza has encouraged South Africans to “stop the blame game” and “find solutions” to fix load shedding.

This week Eskom implemented Load Shedding stage 2 at night and says that not a single power station is running at full capacity.

At the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday, EWN comments that Mabuza has said that the people who were put in charge of Eskom has “failed” the government for many years by not making sure there was a reliable power supply.

“Let us all work together. It’s pointless to point fingers at each other and leave the challenges. It’s up to this generation to stand up and solve this problem. We’ll be failing the nation, we’ll be failing the people if we continue pointing fingers at each other and not solving the problem.”

While Mabuza focuses on finding solutions, Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Public Enterprises empathizes with South Africans.

Gordhan blames the recent power outages on a lack of experienced engineers and insufficient equipment.

“It is well understood among engineers who understand power stations, who understand boilers, who understand turbines that a lot of wrong things were done operationally speaking during a particular period in Eskom’s history and that is what is now being fixed and that takes time,” he said.”