DPWI is not responsible for loadshedding schedules of any area or government building
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) would like to set the record straight about the issue of loadshedding in government buildings and state accommodation.
For the past few days, the department has been inundated with enquiries regarding loadshedding at Bryntirion Estate which houses members of the executive.
As DPWI we want to place it on record that as much as we are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of Bryntirion Estate and other properties that house members of the executive, we are not responsible for determining loadshedding, the places and times when it should occur. It is the mandate and the discretion of the municipalities and Eskom to do that. Which is why municipalities are able to switch off government buildings when they default, not us DPWI because that is not our area of responsibility.
It should however, be noted that in the City of Cape Town, only the President and Deputy President’s house remain lit. As for ministerial houses, they experience the effects of loadshedding like everybody else in the neighbourhood as per municipality’s loadshedding schedule
Contact:
Thamsanqa Mchunu
Acting Chief Director:
DPWI Communications and Marketing
Mobile: 079 519 6997
Telephone: 012 406 1841
Email: thamsanqa.mchunu@dpw.gov.za
