Sadc seeks answers on energy crisis

THE Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) protocol on energy will be amended with a view to modernise it and provide solutions to the crippling power crisis affecting the region.

This was revealed yesterday by the Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira in response to questions from journalists on the energy crisis at the 38th post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday.

Murwira said the electricity crisis needed technological solutions as power production capacity and demand had changed since 1996.

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