President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans not to panic over Eskom's load shedding, saying that the government was addressing the issue on a daily basis.
He was speaking on the Cape Flats during an election campaign in the Western Cape on Friday.
Ramaphosa said the IEC was concerned about the issue of load-shedding, which he called debilitating, even as he assured the country that the problems facing the power grid would be addressed.
"Because in the end, we want an election process that will not be weakened or interfered with or interrupted by load-shedding. So we’re pulling out all the stops to address those issues", he said.
The president also acknowledged that revelations about state capture would hurt the ANC in the elections on 8 May.
Ramaphosa said however, it was important to reveal what went wrong in government and the party.
He said that the ANC had humbled itself and was committed to revealing the extent of the corruption and wrongdoing and that those found guilty would face the full might of the law.
