GP lost over 300,000 job opportunities in 2022

JOHANNESBURG - Rolling blackouts cost more than 300,000 job opportunities in Gauteng in 2022 according to the province's Economic Development MEC, Tasneem Motara. 

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She was responding to a DA question on the impact of power cuts.

Motara also says blackouts resulted in over R103bn not being realised.

The MEC says her department is conducting a survey to ascertain more data on the effect of power cuts.