Solidarity provides emergency plan for Eskom blackouts
Tips from planning for water and food supplies to arrangements on how family members can stay in touch should communication be impeded.
Solidarity, in conjunction with KragDag and Maroela Media, launched an emergency plan over the weekend for what to do in the event of a total Eskom blackout.
The plan offers practical tips on how households can prepare for the eventuality of being without Eskom electricity for up to two weeks.
Although chances for a collapse of the national grid are slim, Solidarity believes members of the public should consider being prepared for it to some degree.
Cabinet, the Cape Metropolitan Council and several other provincial and metropolitan authorities have reportedly started to make such preparations. Moreover, independent energy experts have already referred to the possibility of protracted power outages.
“Should such an eventuality occur, the public will, to a large extent, have to rely on themselves and should thus be prepared. Even if it doesn’t happen, it is still in the public’s interest to be proactive. With this emergency plan we want to help our members and the general public to be prepared too, so that there would be no reason to panic should Eskom not be able to supply electricity for a week or two,” Piet le Roux, head of Solidarity’s Research Institute said.
The emergency plan includes tips that range from planning for water and food supplies to arrangements on how family members can stay in touch with one another should communication be impeded.
It also deals with safety measures, as well as possible cooperation between neighbours and other members of the community.
The emergency plan is in the format of a back-to-back A4 document on which households can tick off progress. It is divided into measures that can be taken beforehand and those that need to be taken during an outage.
Click here to download the plan in Afrikaans (English version available soon).
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