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addressing the national crisis by adopting a proactive approach to mitigate the worst effects of rolling blackouts. City of Cape Town energy resilience interventions The City of Cape Town has been a trendsetter among the country’s metropolitan municipalities…City the excess power they generate privately. • Support for indigent households: With a R2.37bn budget for indigent relief, Cape Town provides free basic electricity equivalent to 60 units kWh per month for every qualifying indigent household. • Independent Power Producer programme

gets things done. The DA has already demonstrated that where we govern in places like the Western Cape, uMngeni, Cape Town, Tshwane and Midvaal, we have the ability to turn our pledges into concrete actions that deliver

destroyed by the ANC over the past three decades. This is enough railway line to cover the distance between Cape Town and Kilimanjaro. Finally, poor service delivery has significantly increased the cost of doing business in South Africa and serves

grass-roots level. Moreover, the ANC is exploiting municipalities for cadre deployment. Each local municipality should govern a single town. There is no evidence suggesting that a system of vast municipalities is beneficial, except for a small, elite group…devolution of power, subsidiarity, affording geographical building blocks more power, autonomy for areas and provinces, greater freedom for the Cape, a do-it-yourself approach, and a smaller government are all possible alternatives and crucial building blocks for such