FF Plus calls on Tshwane to prioritise the critical shortage of skilled personnel in the Energy Department [SOUND]

# The Freedom Front Plus is calling on the City of Tshwane to address the critical shortage of skilled personnel within the Department of Energy and Electricity. The department’s completion rate for power faults has dropped to just 37-percent, with more than 12-thousand technical requests outstanding for longer than 90 days. FF Plus’s Nick Pascoe says the metro operates 55 substations, yet has only 26 qualified technicians authorised to work on the high-voltage network: